Last quarter you reported upon some pretty stellar growth numbers for Android in the global smartphone marketplace. Back then, Google’s OS had the 9.6 percent cut of the pie, though today that’s ballooned to a robust 17.2 percent, definition which in conditions of end-user sales over a last 3 months, Android has scarcely matched RIM’s BlackBerry sales. That’s utterly a feat when you cruise which the year ago a latter was changeable 10 times more units than the former. This fast gait of growth has narrowed down Symbian’s lead during a tip, in spite of Nokia’s the one preferred OS actually shipping upon more phones this year, while the large crook of the entertain has to be Windows Mobile, which contracted both in terms of market share and tangible shipments.

Overall, smartphone sales were up by 50 percent year-on-year, according to both Gartner and IDC, whilst Gartner adds that mobile inclination as a whole grew during the tamer 13.3 percent rate. In conditions of phone manufacturers’ global share, Nokia and Samsung have hold upon to their top positions, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola have gifted a little worried shrinkage, and HTC, RIM and Apple have capitalized to expand their portions. Looking over to IDC’s smartphone share interpretation shows, again, which all smartphone makers have been flourishing extraordinarily well, though it does prominence HTC (129 percent) and Samsung (173 percent) as unequivocally improving their presence in the zone. The reason? Android, Android, Android.