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Android Took 36% Smartphone Share in Q1: Gartner

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committing to a particular ecosystem and reducing the chances of switching to a new platform.

  • These numbers highlight a positive trend for Android and iOS and negative trends for the rest of the top 5 smartphone platform makers
  • RIM dropped from 19.7 percent share and shows no signs of halting that fall after a weak smartphone showing at Blackberry World earlier this month
  • Gartner said the first Windows Phone 7 devices failed to catch on as consumers bought Android phones for the holiday season
  • However, Nokia saw its Symbian share plummet from 44.2 percent a year ago
  • Android, which Google executives said is being activated on 400,000 devices daily, tripled its market share from Q1 2010, with Samsung, HTC and Motorola shipping the lion's share of these phones


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