Android Gets Even Bigger And Tops The Charts For Smartphone OS

Nokia may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone platform war to Android, according to research from Canalys. In the fourth quarter of 2010, shipments of the Google-backed OS were 32.9 million, compared to Symbian at 31 million. In the US, Android’s dominance is now even more pronounced: according to stats from NPD, Android was on 53 percent of all handsets shipped in the quarter, its next closest competitors, Apple and RIM, are both at 19 percent.