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There is finally enough information to try to give an estimate of the smartphone market as a subset of the overall phone market.

The chart to the left shows the overall picture.

To sum up: The smartphone market has now reached over 30% of shipments. Non-smart devices are at 69% of total. The individual phone platform shares are as follows:

1. Android (and Android-like): 17.6%
2. iOS (iPhone only) 4.4%
3. Nokia Symbian: 4.3%
4. BlackBerry: 2.76%
5. Bada: 1%
6. Windows Phone 0.5%

via asymco.com

Do you remember that Gmail for iOS app that popped up a couple of weeks ago — and then got yanked by Google for having broken notifications? It has made its (not-so) triumphant return to the App Store, and is now available to install on your iOS device.

The app isn’t really much of an app. It’s mostly just a wrapper for the Gmail web UI. The biggest additions are attachment support, a mailbox menu that can be accessed by swiping, and (some) push notifications. As with the web app, you will get a tablet-optimized version on the iPad, with the standard mobile UI on an iPhone.

The term “push notifications” should be used with several grains of salt here. This updated Gmail app will succeed in notifying you of new email, but with serious limitations. It doesn’t utilize iOS 5′s improved notifications, and will merely give you an icon badge and an alert sound. That means no banners, no lockscreen alerts, and no Notification Center presence.

Some users will surely find a use for the new Gmail app. There are those who just don’t like the stock iOS Mail app, and may want to mix it up. Fans of Google’s new web UI could appreciate the ability to have that same experience — only with the addition of badge notifications and attachments.

However, it’s hard to deny that this app is disappointing. When such a significant entry from Google is left out of the App Store for so long, you expect something exciting and top-of-the-line when it finally does arrive. Instead, we get the Gmail web app with a couple of extras. All of the negative press that the company will get for this app hardly seems worth it.

Download Gmail for iOS, via Google Mobile Blog

Then we have the operating systems. First, for those who may be here for the first time - remember, I am only counting smartphones, so where for example the iOS operating system also is used on iPad Touch and iPod devices, those are not counted as smartphones. Similarly Android tablets are not included in the Android smartphone numbers here, etc. Bear in mind that I have ‘downgraded both Android and bada from the previous numbers, so you may find especially that my Android and bada numbers may be significantly different from numbers reported by some other analysts recently. But I trust my math, so here goes:

1. (1.)    Android (Google)                   56.4 Million    48% (40%)
2. (3.)    Symbian (Nokia)                   18.1 Million    15% (17%)
3. (2.)    iOS (Apple)                           17.1 Million     15% (19%)
4. (4.)    Blackberry OS                      10.7 Million       9% (12%)
5. (5.)    bada (Samsung)                     2.6 Million       2%  ( 2%)
6. (7.)    Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft)  1.3 Million       1%  ( 1%)
7. (6.)    Windows Mobile (Microsoft)     0.4 Million       0%  ( 1%)

(others 11.1 Million)

TOTAL        117.7 Million

For the first time ever, an iPhone is now more likely to show up in a conference room than a BlackBerry, a new Mobile Workforce Report from research firm iPass suggests. According to the report, 95% of mobile workers now own a smartphone, up 10 percentage points from 2010, and 45% of the enterprise workforce carries an iPhone, up from 31.1% last year. “BlackBerry has not really fallen from the top spot in so much as other smartphones have grown faster,” the report said. “BlackBerry market share has only declined slightly from 35% in 2010 to 32% today.” Read on for more.

Android’s market share doubled year over year to surpass Symbian with a 21% share of the enterprise smartphone market. 18% of mobile workers said they intend to purchase an iPhone in 2012, 11.2% are planning to buy an Android device and 3.6% want a Windows Phone. Only 2.3% of workers have plans to buy a BlackBerry next year. Several respondents reported owning multiple devices on different platforms.

The iPass study also found a number of other compelling tidbits: 40% of mobile workers would feel disoriented if they didn’t have a smartphone for a week, 34% would feel distraught and 10% would feel lonely. The iPass study was based on a survey of more than 2,300 workers around the world.

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Tags: Apple, BlackBerry, corporate, iPass, iPhone, RIM, study, survey

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