Study: Smartphone sales are rising, and most of them are Android

“Despite the Android platform’s advancements and its dominant market share, the challenges of profitability remain for a number of Android players,” stated Gartner research director Roberta Cozza in a press release outlining some findings from the firms’ recent mobile market share report.

Market research firm Gartner, Inc. is reporting that worldwide smartphone sales are up year-over-year for the first quarter of 2016, and Android devices make up an increasing majority of those sales.

He was speaking specifically about Android hardware, and alluded to new opportunities for the OS beyond smartphones.