Google’s Android overtook the long-time market leader, Nokia’s Symbian, as the world’s most popular smartphone platform in the fourth quarter, according to the research firm Canalys.
In total, 32.9m phones running Android were sold to retailers and mobile networks in the fourth quarter of 2010, compared with Symbian’s total sales of 31m in the quarter, the researcher said.
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Android System Overtakes Symbian Google’s operating system for cellphones has overtaken Nokia’s Symbian system as the market leader, ending the Finnish company’s long reign, a British research firm said Monday.
In the three months through December, manufacturers shipped 33.3 million cellphones running Android, Google’s free, open-source cellphone operating system, up from just 4.7 million a year earlier, according to Canalys, a research firm in Reading, England. www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01android.html
Google topples Nokia from smartphones top spot Google Inc’s Android dethroned Nokia’s Symbian as the global leader in smartphone software during the last quarter of 2010, ending a reign that began with the birth of the industry a decade ago.
The reshuffle underscores how quickly Google, which offers its software to phone makers for free, has raced to the top of the smartphone market ahead of Apple Inc’s rapid ascension. Google and Apple have revolutionized the smartphone market, sending Nokia scrambling. uk.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/oukin-uk-google-nokia-idUKTRE70U1YT20110131 in.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/idINIndia-54532320110131
Google’s Android overtakes Nokia’s Symbian The rapid growth of Google’s Android smartphone operating system is captured by figures showing that it overtook Nokia’s equivalent to become the most popular platform in the last three months of 2010.
Canalys, the research group, said that shipments of smartphones using Android surpassed those containing Nokia’s Symbian for the first time in the fourth quarter. www.ft.com/cms/s/0/17433c60-2d31-11e0-9b0f-00144feab49a.html
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