Symbian Loses Top-Dog Status to Android-Run Smartphones
PC Magazine: Canalys reports that shipments of smartphones with Android surpassed the Symbian OS in the fourth quarter.
"Shipments of smartphones with Google-based operating systems surpassed the Symbian OS in the fourth quarter, giving Google 32.9 percent of the global market to Nokia's 30.6 percent, according to data from Canalys."
"The Google numbers include the Android platform as well as smartphones running the Android-based Tapas and OMS platforms, which were developed in China. Shipments of Google-based smartphones jumped from 4.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009 to 33.3 million in the last quarter, a 615 percent growth, Canalys said."
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