Google dethrones Nokia with Android smartphone: study (AFP)

Monday, January 31, 2011 7:01 AM

HELSINKI (AFP) – Google's smartphone operating grouping Android has passed Nokia's Symbian and become the global smartphone mart leader, mart investigate company Canalys said Monday.

In the ordinal quarter of 2010, 32.9 meg phones streaming Android were shipped compared to 31 meg handsets streaming Symbian, according to Canalys.

Based on shipment figures, Google's proportionality of the smartphone mart deal leapt from 8.7 proportionality in 2009 to 32.5 percent, patch Nokia's shrank from 44 proportionality to 30.6 percent.

"But Nokia did retain its function as the directive global smartphone vendor, with a deal of 28 percent," the Canalys inform added.

Nokia's smartphone mart deal has been undermined over the past two eld by the stellar rise of Apple's iPhone, RIM's Blackberry and phones streaming Android much as those produced by Samsung and HTC.

According to Canalys, Apple's mart deal remained around the same, at 16 proportionality at the modify of 2010, patch RIM came in ordinal place with 14.4 proportionality and Microsoft brought up the side with 3.1 percent.

The smartphone mart itself grew by nearly 89 proportionality in 2010, with 101.2 meg handsets sold, said Canalys.

"2010 has been a strange assemblage for the sharp phone market... but vendors cannot afford to be complacent," said Canalys evilness president and principal analyst Chris Jones.

"2011 is ordered to be a highly combative assemblage with vendors hunting to use new technology, much as dual-core processors, NFC and 3D displays, to evolve their products and maintain value," he added, referring to near field act commercialism systems.


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