Android Upstages Nokia's Symbian in Global Smartphone Shipments
In what amounts to a tectonic shift for the global smartphone market, Google’s Android operating system upstaged Nokia’s Symbian for the first time in phone shipments worldwide, according to Canalys, a U.K. research firm.
Android shipments grew by more than sixfold to 32.9 million devices, fueled by sales of Verizon’s Droid line of phones then by Samsung’s and HTC’s devices, over the past year. Nokia also grew, but only by 30 percent to 31.0 million devices worldwide, which was not enough to preserve its lead.
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