When talking about market shares, we now have another important contender for the first places: Android. After surpassing Microsoft, they've reached the 4th place on a global scale. Android became now the 4th biggest smartphone operating system around the world. There's still a long way to beat Symbian, iPhone OS and BlackBerry, but smoking Windows Mobile out is a nice moment for Android. 

This may also be because of the open source, that allows every user to do whatever he wants with Android, instead of Windows Mobile, which is not open source (as Windows for computers).

In the first quarter of the year, Android sold 10% of all the smartphones around. They even beat iPhone OS in US in Q1. As we told you yesterday, many experts from Sillicon Valley actually expect Android to catch up iPhone OS soon. This is an impressive growth because Android had to fight with other four major OS around. This can only mean one thing: competitivity. And as you know, competitivity always brings the best out of the contenders.

Source: PhAndroid