Smartphone shipments hit new peak in 2009

20:20 10th February 2010

Total smartphone shipments reached a new peak of 166 million units in 2009, according to a market analyst.

Tim Shepherd, of Canalys, said that it was no surprise that Apple topped the table of leading vendors of touch-screen smartphones but added that Nokia follows close behind "with tremendous growth thanks to models such as the Nokia 5800 and N97. Nokia was actually the leading vendor by volume of touch-screen smartphones in the final quarter of the year."

His comments came as new figures by Canalys found that smartphones with touch-screens accounted for 55 per cent of all smartphone shipments in the last quarter of 2009.

In other news, the Symbian Foundation has completed its move to offer the code of its hit smartphone platform for free.

The move, first announced in 2008, means that the "billions of dollars" worth of underlying source code of the operating system can be used or modified by anyone "for any purpose."

Written by Hannah James

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