Android Is World's Biggest Smartphone OS

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Dont know if its been posted before i did check the first 3 pages but nothing.

At this time of the year it seems as if figures are all that people are interested in. In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen financial results from the likes of Google, Apple and Intel as well as mobile phones sales around the world and in the UK only. Today we get another set of figures and these show that Google’s mobile phone operating system, Android, has overtaken Nokia’s Symbian as the most used smartphone OS.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2011/01/31/Android-Is-World-s-Biggest-Mobile-OS/p1

Good for andriod but i thought nokia was streets ahead in terms of amount of users...

looking at the numbers in the link its shows google with 33m v 16m for apple. more than double
 
The surprising thing here is not that Symbian lost it's number one spot but it kept if for so long when the last decent Nokia smart phone was the E71 which is over two years old tech. Which goes to show what a dominate position Nokia has/had in the phone business.

What i hope this news does is encourage Nokia to pull its thumb out and push MeeGo properly. They always produce good handsets but the OS has been holding them back.
 
You also have to remember that Nokia had bucketloads of cloned phones in the Asian market, most of the high end ones were replicas masking themselves as Nokia phones - heck my dad bought a "genuine" E71 off eBay and it was a fake :p

Before Xmas Android overtook Apple and Nokia in the States for both users and sales, only 2nd above RIM's Blackberry lineup - The takeover was inevitable at this kind of rapid growth, it's what happens when you have a great OS across all classes of devices!
 
Symbian has been the top smartphone OS since they invented the smartphone market back in 2001. Android over-taking is big news, IMO.

Just one word of caution - Canalys' figures are all estimated and not based on numbers reported by the manufacturers. Knowing how many Android phones have actually been sold is almost impossible.
 
Tunney said:
Symbian has been the top smartphone OS since they invented the smartphone market back in 2001. Android over-taking is big news, IMO.

Just one word of caution - Canalys' figures are all estimated and not based on numbers reported by the manufacturers. Knowing how many Android phones have actually been sold is almost impossible.
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Symbian has been fudging the smartphone numbers for years by Nokia sticking S60 on all kinds of handsets and claiming they're smartphones, while knowing full well that almost no one would use them as anything more than a feature phone at best.
 
bam0 said:
Symbian has been fudging the smartphone numbers for years by Nokia sticking S60 on all kinds of handsets and claiming they're smartphones, while knowing full well that almost no one would use them as anything more than a feature phone at best.
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And now we're seeing the same with Android. Plenty of my friends have Android phones and have no idea what their phone is capable of.

Interestingly, that's not the case in Asia, where most Symbian phones are sold. Many many people use a Symbian device as their primary method of connecting to the internet.
 
Tunney said:
And now we're seeing the same with Android. Plenty of my friends have Android phones and have no idea what their phone is capable of.

Interestingly, that's not the case in Asia, where most Symbian phones are sold. Many many people use a Symbian device as their primary method of connecting to the internet.
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I don't know an Android phone (not saying there aren't any) that doesn't ask you to enter a gmail id when you first start it up, and doesn't have the Android market on it. Most come with some kind of social networking integrated and make such features a lot more prominent.

And you're going to have to provide something to back up your last statement as I basically don't believe you.
 
bam0 said:
And you're going to have to provide something to back up your last statement as I basically don't believe you.
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Sure, here's some stats on global web share.

"If one excludes iTouch from the figures then iPhone's market share of Internet browsing in the US (0.18%) is still well ahead of Nokia (0.01%). However, Nokia still maintains a significant lead over Apple in the global market with 0.25% to 0.08%."

And these are stats back from when did put S60 on a lot of numeric keypad, non-touchscreen phones. People were using S60 for smartphone tasks.
 
Tunney said:
Sure, here's some stats on global web share.

"If one excludes iTouch from the figures then iPhone's market share of Internet browsing in the US (0.18%) is still well ahead of Nokia (0.01%). However, Nokia still maintains a significant lead over Apple in the global market with 0.25% to 0.08%."

And these are stats back from when did put S60 on a lot of numeric keypad, non-touchscreen phones. People were using S60 for smartphone tasks.
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Sorry, that's global stats for early 2008 when Android wasn't even released yet and iPhone had only been out for 7 months in the US and 3 months over here.
That does nothing to support your assertion that many people in Asia use a Symbian device as their primary method of connecting to the internet.
 
bam0 said:
Sorry, that's global stats for early 2008 when Android wasn't even released yet and iPhone had only been out for 7 months in the US and 3 months over here.
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As stated, I brought up the 2008 numbers for a reason. It covers the historical period when S60 devices looked mainly like regular feature phones - in other words, the period that you were moaning about. It would be pointless digging up web browser stats for 2011 because all Symbian phones these days are touchscreen devices with Facebook, YouTube, et al pre-installed.

That does nothing to support your assertion that many people in Asia use a Symbian device as their primary method of connecting to the internet.
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Go to India or China and find out for yourself then.
 
Tunney said:
As stated, I brought up the 2008 numbers for a reason. It covers the historical period when S60 devices looked mainly like regular feature phones - in other words, the period that you were moaning about. It would be pointless digging up web browser stats for 2011 because all Symbian phones these days are touchscreen devices with Facebook, YouTube, et al pre-installed.
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It was also the period where if you wanted a smartphone to use as such your choice was Symbian or Windows Mobile. My point is that since alternatives became available a lot of S60 phones were still sold when they were effectively no use as smartphone, despite technically being one and hence inflating the Symbian numbers.

Go to India or China and find out for yourself then.
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You can't make assertions without providing anything to back them up and expect me to believe them.
 
bam0 said:
I don't know an Android phone (not saying there aren't any) that doesn't ask you to enter a gmail id when you first start it up, and doesn't have the Android market on it. Most come with some kind of social networking integrated and make such features a lot more prominent.

And you're going to have to provide something to back up your last statement as I basically don't believe you.
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Well the Sony X10 Mini doesn't...

My sister had it for 3 months before I asked if she had installed anything on it. Had to set her up an account to access the marketplace to show her. That was about 2 months ago and I don't think she has downloaded any programs yet...

A huge proportion of people won't use android phones as proper smartphones, FB and the internet is what most use them for with apps a distant second.
 
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