Google's Android
operating system turn out to be the world's top smart phone display
place, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million smart phones
shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010.Canalys, which crunched smart phone shipments across North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America, said Android edged the struggling Nokia, which sold 31 million units for the quarter.Android's
market share closed slashed to its
shipment total, at 32.9 percent,
while Nokia was at 30.6 percent share through Q4. No. 5 smart phone
provider Microsoft's unit shipments and market share were 3.1 million
and 3.1 percent, respectively for Q4.Android partly prompted by the first major marketing push of Verizon's Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris in the 2009 holiday season."Verizon
will move its focus away from the Droid range, but the overall market
impact will mean less carrier-exclusive deals, while increasing the
AT&T opportunity for Android vendors, such as HTC, Motorola and
Samsung," Shepherd added.Most market analyst expects iPhone to
easily outshine Android in the United States, nailing 10 million to 20
million unit sales via Verizon alone.
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