Apple and Google’s Android OS were best performers in 2009s mobile phone and smartphone markets, says Gartner. While phone sales slipped slightly over the year, the fourth quarter finished strong, leading to projections of double-digit growth for 2010.
– The worldwide mobile phone market finished 2009 strong, with sales
to end users exceeding 340 million units in the fourth quarter, for a
growth of 8.3 percent over the final quarter of 2008, Gartner said in a
Feb. 23 report.

The research firm added that the best performers of 2009 in whic…