23% of mobile consumers now have a smartphone

23% of mobile consumers now have a smartphone it was just 16% in Q2 ‘09. Between Q4 ’09 and Q1 ’10, Android and iPhone’s share of the smartphone market grew by 2% each while Blackberry and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS lost 2% each to fall to 35% and 19% respectively. 80% of iPhone users want their next device to run iPhone OS while 70% of Android users want another Android device. This is in stark comparison to other major smartphone players: only 47% of Blackberry users want another Blackberry while only 34% of Windows Mobile users want another Windows Mobile device.

By The Nielsen Company research