Google’s Android operating system continues its ear-popping rise to superstardom, with news that 55 million handsets will ship with the OS in 2010 – up 560 per cent from just a year ago. This startling statistic comes from a Digitimes report, which noted that Android now holds 13.8 per cent of the phone market – a figure that will rise to 24.5 per cent by the end of the year. Android share Android will still have some way to go before it beat Symbian, though, whose market share is predicted to be 35 per cent at the end of 2010. The Digitimes report echoes a similar one by US analyst’s Nielsen, who now puts Android above iPhone in market share.
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55 million smartphones to ship with Android ‘this year’
