Gartner: Android leapfrogs Linux and Windows Mobile

” Android has overtaken Windows Mobile and Linux for fourth
place in smartphone OS market share with 9.6 percent, says Gartner.
The worldwide study of first quarter smartphone sales showed a 707
per cent year-on-year increase in Android sales in North America,
while the total smartphone market saw its largest year-on-year
increase since 2006, says the research firm.

“Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an
increase of 48.7 per cent from the recession-burdened first quarter
of 2009, says Gartner. This is said to represent the largest yearly
rise in 14 years, although we doubt a 2006 “smartphone” would
remotely justify that name today.

“Smartphones accounted for 17.3 per cent of all mobile handset
sales in the first quarter of 2010, up from 13.6 per cent in the
same period in 2009, says the study. (For more on global sales of
all handsets, see farther below.)”

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