Samsung has clarified that it shipped 2 million devices, rendering the results of this study inaccurate. We’re still waiting for Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, which is supposed to be the first version of the platform aimed at tablets, but Android tablets on the whole are doing quite well, at least according to the latest numbers by market research firm Strategy Analytics.
Android tablets have climbed to 22% market share in the fourth quarter of 2010 — an almost tenfold increase compared to the 2.3%
in the previous quarter. The gain is mostly due to strong sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Strategy Analytics says.
Apple sold 7.3 million iPads in the last quarter, and the device accounted for 75% of global shipments in Q4 2010, which is quite a fall from the 96% it had in Q3 2010.
The numbers are in line with a recent report that claimed Samsung has sold 2 million Galaxy Tabs in Q4 2010.
With most major consumer electronics manufacturers poised to release a new tablet in 2011, and Google holding a Honeycomb-related event on Wednesday (which hopefully means a near release date of this particular version of Android), Android has all the ingredients to do for tablets what it did for smartphones: become the most powerful alternative to Apple’s iOS platform.
Apple, which is expected to launch a new version of its iPad this year, is still well ahead in the tablet department, but it won’t be able to rest on its laurels too long.
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