Based on data from the research institute Canalys, Android market share has reached 48 percent of the overall smartphone market in the world. The research found that the Android market share in 35 countries of 56 countries surveyed. In comparison, Apple's IOS platform in the second had only 19 percent market share by selling 20.3 million units of iPhone.
Android market share has reached 48 percent of the overall smartphone market in the worldAndroid, which Google acquired in 2005 and was launched in 2008 as an open source platform, has been used by almost all leading mobile phone makers, like HTC, LG, Motorola, and Samsung. If accumulated, nearly half of world production is now using the Android smartphones.
Thanks to Android as well, starting this quarter Samsung managed to overtake Nokia who for years held the top ranking of smartphone manufacturers. Today, the largest smartphone manufacturer is held by Apple, followed by Samsung and Nokia. However, Canalys said, handset makers from South Korea should be able to do it better.
"Samsung failed to capitalize on weaknesses of Nokia," said Chris Jones, Canalys analysts. According to him, this time to grow and take advantage of global scale, especially in emerging markets. Samsung, which sells Android smartphone with Bada homemade device, has sold about 17 million devices, up 421 percent compared to last year.
However, success Android comes with a problem for Google and its vendors. After Oracle sued last year, Google is now starting trouble with Apple and Microsoft, which claims patents from Nortel. Microsoft, whose presence alone in only 1 percent of the smartphone market, has made a deal with some of the Android handset makers, and makes the problem more complicated.
Affected by the failure to obtain patent Nortel, Google plans to hold talks to buy U.S. wireless chip company, Interdigital. It aims to increase its patent portfolio. Interdigital, which has a market value of 3.11 billion U.S. dollars this year, an increase of 395 million U.S. dollars in 2010, said earlier this week is a time to evaluate the strategic, including the possible sale of the company or patent.
Last month, Apple, Microsoft, and BlackBerry maker, RIM, in collaboration with three other companies to beat Google in an auction for a wireless company Nortel patents so that the auction value is greater than that offered by Google. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Justice Department intensified its investigation into whether Apple, Microsoft, and RIM could use the acquisition of a patent for a balanced competition with Google's Android software.
