IDC: Android Boosts Worldwide Smartphone Sales
"The open-source Android mobile operating system developed by Google is helping to push worldwide smartphone sales to new highs, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In the fourth quarter of 2010, vendors shipped a total of 100.9 million smartphones, up 87.2 percent from the 53.9 million smartphones shipped during the same period in 2009."
"For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 302.6 million smartphones worldwide, up 74.4 percent from the 173.5 million smartphones shipped in 2009. Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's mobile phone technology and trends team, said Android’s market penetration, helped by the numerous handset manufacturers adopting the platform, has become a cornerstone of the smartphone market’s growth."
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