Technology & Business2007–2025
Smartphone OS Market Share
In 2007 Nokia's Symbian owned nearly two thirds of all smartphone sales, with BlackBerry and Windows Mobile fighting for the rest. Then the iPhone and Android arrived and rewrote the market in under four years. By 2013 it was a duopoly — and it never stopped being one.
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Source: Gartner / StatCounter Gartner sell-through data through ~2016; StatCounter-informed estimates after. Methodologies differ; shares rounded to 0.1%. Updated 2026-07-03
The race in numbers
1lead change
18years covered
9contenders
Androidlongest reign — 14 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2025
- 1Android72.0%
- 2iOS27.7%
- 3Other0.3%