Android beats Symbian. Finally!
If you needed any more proof that smartphones are here to stay - a new study shows the market exceeded 100 million units in the last quarter of 2010. So roughly 25 million smartphones sold every month!
Research firm Canalys published a report on the global country-level smartphone market data, revealing that Google’s Android has become the leading platform. No surprise there.
Nearly 33 million Android-based smartphones were shipped last quarter. Nokia's Symbian OS trailed slightly behind at 31 million worldwide, keeping the Finnish giant at the helm as the top global smartphone vendor with 28 percent market share. However, the long-standing regime will topple in the next quarter or two.
In the last four months of 2010, Android was helped by strong performances from LG, Samsung, Acer and HTC. Taiwain's HTC and Korea's Samsung together accounted for almost half of Google OS-based handset shipments (45 percent).
Canalys Smart Phone Analysis, Quarterly Shipment Data
Via Canalys.
