Almost zero: BlackBerry goes from titan to little in tellurian smartphone sales

The latest numbers from Gartner, a U.S. record attention investigate company, uncover that notwithstanding a 7 per cent expansion in altogether tellurian smartphone sales in a fourth entertain of 2016, BlackBerry’s share fell to 0.0481 per cent. (Regis Duvignau/Reuters)

A new news suggests BlackBerry, a once widespread actor in a tellurian smartphone market, has sunk to reduction than a commission indicate of sum worldwide sales. 

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The latest numbers from Gartner, a U.S. record attention investigate company, uncover that notwithstanding a 7 per cent expansion in altogether tellurian smartphone sales in a fourth entertain of 2016, BlackBerry phones using a possess handling complement (OS) share of that marketplace fell to 0.0481 per cent. 

Apple tip of heap

It’s a distant cry from a Waterloo-based record company’s position during a tip of tellurian sales charts 8 years ago, a position now being relentlessly jostled over by rivals Samsung and Apple. 

According to Gartner’s latest research, Apple now occupies a round of tellurian smartphone sales, though only barely.

Gartner pronounced sales of only 256,000 units separate Apple from its number dual ranked opposition Samsung, in a year that saw sum sales of 1.5 billion units. 

On a program side, Google’s Android handling complement dwarfs a rest by holding an 82 per cent marketplace share in a fourth entertain of 2016.

More than 352 million units used a Android height in a final quarter, including BlackBerry’s Priv and DTEK array handsets, that use a Android operating complement and are not enclosed in a 207,900 units that Gartner pronounced use BlackBerry’s operating system. 

Big gains have been done by a Chinese manufacturer Oppo, that is now a largest offered brand in China and ranked fourth worldwide, Gartner said.

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