According to Gartner and their newly-released report of annual worldwide smartphone sales, webOS handsets (Palm) own less than 1% of total market share and face a long uphill road to expand that market share. When compared to Goliaths like Symbian, Research In Motion and the iPhone, the webOS platform lags far behind, even lagging behind the new up-and-coming Android OS.

Even though webOS hardly registers a statistical ripple in the highly-competitive global smartphone ocean, there are still plenty of bright spots to look forward to as webOS handsets become more widely available on other carriers and as the number of apps grow. Although it has modest beginnings, webOS may be poised to make a bigger splash in the months ahead.

source: engadget