Android snaps up 52% of mobile phone market
18.05.12
Google has reason to celebrate this week, with a recent study showing that Android, its mobile phone operation system, has now take 52 per cent of the smartphone market.
This percentage is even more impressive when you consider that Android only had 25.3 per cent market share in Q3 2010.
According to Gartner this means that when it comes to worldwide sales, Android trounced the opposition with over 60 million smartphones sold.
Its nearest rival was Symbian, which took 16.9 per cent of the market – a drop of 20 per cent when you compare the OS to how it was doing at the same time last year.
When it comes to iOS, it also saw a drop in its share of the market, albeit a small one. Over 17 million iOS handsets were sold which equates to a 15 per cent market share, down from 16.6 per cent a year ago.
Apple shouldn't be too worried about this drop, however, as it is said to have happened because consumers were waiting for the iPhone 4S to arrive before making a purchase decision.
Source: TechRadar UK