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No User Ratings YetAccording to a report by Canalys, Google’s Android mobile OS has taken the global smartphone lead shipping more than 33 million in Q4 of 2010 alone (a 615.1% growth from Q4 of 2009; Android shipments in all of 2009 were nearly 8 million). In only two years Android has come to surpass Nokia, Apple and RIM in worldwide smartphone saturation, but we’ve seen this coming… it now has the numbers to prove it. Check the stats below… here’s more juicy Android Statistics we keep for your information!
| OS Vendor | Q4 2010 shipments (millions) | % Share | Q4 2009 shipments (millions) | % Share | Growth Q4’10/Q4’09 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 101.2 | 100% | 53.7 | 100% | 88.6% |
| Google* | 33.3 | 32.9% | 4.7 | 8.7% | 615.1% |
| Nokia | 31.0 | 30.6% | 23.9 | 44.4% | 30.0% |
| Apple | 16.2 | 16.0% | 8.7 | 16.3% | 85.9% |
| RIM | 14.6 | 14.4% | 10.7 | 20.0% | 36.0% |
| Microsoft | 3.1 | 3.1% | 3.9 | 7.2% | -20.3% |
| Others | 3.0 | 2.9% | 1.8 | 3.4% | 64.8% |
| *Note: The Google numbers in this table relate to Android, as well as the OMS and Tapas platform variants Source: Canalys estimates, © Canalys 2011 |
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