Android Is 2nd in Mobile Sales, Gartner Says - NYTimes.com

According to a new mobile phone report released Wednesday by Gartner, the technology research company, sales of smartphones and mobile devices continued to surge in the third quarter.

Gartner said in the report that a staggering 417 million mobile phones were sold worldwide during this past quarter, up 35 percent from the same period last year. The report also notes that the sale of smartphones, which include phones on the Android platform from Google, the BlackBerry from Research In Motion, and the iPhone from Apple, grew 96 percent from last year.

Android took top honors in the report. Android-based phones “accounted for 25.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the No. 2 operating system” in the world, right behind Symbian, Nokia’s operating system.

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