Gartner finds that smartphone sales surged by 42%, year-over-year during Q3, 2011. Thus, contributing significantly to the 5.6% growth in mobile sales (smart + non smartphones), for the same period. From Q3, 2010 to Q3, 2011; 440.5M mobile phones were sold, with 115M of them being smartphones. 

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NPD’s Mobile Phone track report, finds that smartphone sales share of all mobile handsets in Q3, 2011 was 59%. That’s a significant 13-point jump from the same period last year! Smartphone prices are on a decline, showing a sequential reduction over the last 4 quarters to average out $135 for this quarter.

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According to Nielsen’s stats, smartphone popularity is surging, with 55% of U.S phone buyers opting for smartphones over feature phones, in the last two months. That’s a 21 percentage point spike year on year. Android continued its dominance with a 38% share, with Apple and Blackberry following suit respectively.

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Market Research firm, GfK Asia, finds that one in five handsets purchased in Asia are smartphones. Android dethrones Symbian in Q3, this year to be the top O.S in Asia. GfK goes on to find that over the last year, more than 4.7 million units of smartphones worth over USD1.48 billion has been shipped in Asia. Smartphones now eats up nearly half of handset market in Asia.

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Gartner’s new data illuminates on the state of global mobile sales, and finds that mobile phones (feature + smart) sales increased by 35% y-o-y (Q3, 09 to Q3, 10), with smartphone sales surging by 96% during the same period. This quarter, smartphones accounted for nearly 20% of the total mobile phone sales. Android meteorically rose from a 3.5% share last year to take the second spot in OS market share this year, with a 25.5% share of global smartphone sales.

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