Google dethrones Nokia with top smartphone platform: study
Google’s smartphone operating system Android has passed Nokia’s Symbian to become the global smartphone market leader, market research company Canalys said on Monday.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, 32.9 million phones running Android were shipped compared to 31 million handsets running Symbian, according to Canalys.
Based on shipment figures, Google’s percentage of the smartphone market share leapt from 8.7 percent in 2009 to 32.5 percent, while Nokia’s shrank from 44 percent to 30.6 percent.
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