64 million smart phones shipped

MARKET RESEARCH FIRM Canalys came up with figures averring 20 million converged gizmos shipped in the last quarter of 2006.

But in total, 64 million so-called "smart phones" shipped last year, with the Big Five shuttling around exchanging places or staying just the same.

Nokia still wins, but not by quite as much. Here are Canalys' results for the fourth quarter last year versus the same quarter in the year before.

Vendor	Q4 06	Share %	Q4 05	Share %	Growth %
Nokia	11,114,630	50.2	9,268,410	54.3	19.9
RIM	1,829,260	8.3	1,185,340	7	54.3
Motorola	1,463,090	6.6	777,580	4.6	88.2
Palm	1,211,930	5.5	1,563,680	9.2	-22.5
SE	1,137,360	5.1	108,710	0.6	946.2
Others	5,368,130	24.3	4,150,210	24.3	29.3

Linux devices represented over 90 per cent of the 1.5 million phones Motorola shipped in Q4, while three quarters of both RIM and Palm's shipments were in North America.

Old Nokia ships over half of its smarty pant phones in Europe, and Japan showed Sony Ericsson performing well against local Symbian vendors, said Canalys. µ