BlackBerry outpaces Android and iPhone Users in Terms of Markertshare for 2009

by Otoniel Bruno

22 January 2010 3 Comments

Yes the BlackBerry is the best smartphone ever. That’s why you’re here today. But this was an interesting piece of statistics we just got sent. By the general look of it one could assume that the BlackBerry is doing a lot better than the Android and the lousy iPhone. That general assumption is correct. According to Myxer, the BlackBerry dominiates over all as RIM devices are getting the highest amounts of visits to their website over Windows, Palm, Android, iPhone, and Symbian. Also to get even more specific, the BlackBerry Curve is remains to be the #1 phone on Myxer’s mobile site for the second year in a row, making it even closer to 10% of visits in both 2008 and 2009. Continue reading for the full press release from Myxer.

PRESS RELEASE:

Deerfield Beach, FL (January 22, 2010) – Google’s Android platform may be gaining significant traction with consumers, but Blackberry still leads the way according to a new report by Myxer. The monthly report entitled BoomBox, makes its debut today, providing data on mobile entertainment consumption and trends reflective of Myxer’s 30 million member-strong community.

According to research conducted, visits to Myxer’s mobile site from users on the Android operating system grew 350% in 2009, compared to iPhone, which grew 170%. In total, Myxer delivered seven times more downloads to Android devices than iPhone devices in Q4 2009.

“While we’ve seen the Android OS emerge as a serious competitor in the operating system landscape, RIM’s operating system still dominates the smartphone market on Myxer’s mobile site, growing from 51% in 2008 to a massive 67% in 2009,” said Myk Willis, CEO of Myxer.

BoomBox is also reporting on specific growth of various Android handsets as it relates to consuming mobile entertainment on the Myxer network. In December ‘08 only one handset, the HTC Dream/G1, was operating on Google’s open source Android operating system. By December 2009, Myxer had seen nine different handsets running the Android OS.

The HTC Dream/G1 remained the leader throughout 2009 garnering 35% of the unique users completing downloads on Android handsets in December.
The HTC myTouch, Motorola CLIQ, and Motorola Droid each gained significant traction by the end of the year, used by 18%, 11%, and 7% (respectively) of total unique Android users on Myxer.

Willis added, “Our aim with this report is to provide a valuable resource for those making business decisions regarding mobile advertising, content, and application development. Plus, as strong proponents of an open mobile ecosystem, our data will reveal interesting insights into both closed and open environments and the surprising usage patterns within each.”

Other notable items tracked in this month’s BoomBox report include:

RIM’s Blackberry Curve remains the #1 phone on Myxer’s mobile site for the second year in a row, garnering close to 10% of visits in both 2008 and 2009. The Blackberry Curve is just one of the 1,500 different handsets that Myxer delivered content to in 2009.
Windows Mobile and Palm both lost ground in 2009, combining to relinquish 24% of the smartphone traffic on Myxer’s mobile site and giving ground to the Android, iPhone, and RIM.
Hip-Hop/R&B content dominates as a music genre; accounting for 77% of Android downloads and 47% of iPhone downloads.

Since 2005 Myxer has cataloged various data points: age, gender, geographic location, phone model, manufacturer, carrier, as well as the operating system of each handset that initiated a download from its delivery platform that now supports more than six million monthly unique visitors downloading over 85 million content items from Myxer each month.

-by Otoniel Bruno