Android OS Beats Nokia’s Symbian OS In India

Google’s Android OS has just beaten the India’s most popular and trusted brand Nokia’s own Symbian OS, Now Nokia stands on second position followed by Android in India

According to IDC India Mobile Phone Tracker Report for Q3 CY2011, Android OS has overtakes Nokia’s Symbian OS market shares to become the top smartphone OS in India.The IDC’s report also said that Android represented 42.4% of the smartphone market shares in the last quarterand saw a growth of 90% over the previous quarter.Symbian was the leading smartphone OS in India in the last quarter.

“ Overall, smartphones shipment for the India Market showed an impressive growth of 21.4% over the previous quarter and 51.5% year on year. This helped the segment growth its contribution to the mobile phone shipment to 6.5% in Q3 from 5.6% in Q2”.
From an operating system perspective, Android Overtook Symbain to emerge as the top platform in India for the first time, with a share of 42.4% of the smartphone market.
Rajeev, Lead Analyst, Mobile Phones, noted

The incresing popularity and smartphone market shares of Android has caused experts to suggest that Nokia may announce plans to announce smartphones using Android OS in the future.

Since from 2006 when Google acquired Android firm the growth of Android OS not only in India but aslo all over the world has continuously goes on increasing, now at present Android is the no.1 smartphone OS in World.
Take a look at 2years ago when Android isn’t popular even its not used by most of the smartphone maker like LG, SAMSUNG, Sony Ericsson etc that time Nokia’s Symbian is the most popular smartphone OS and has largest no of smartphone shares in market, but now conditions has changed Android OS has amazingly developed. Android is open source OS and because of this it has largest no of application in Android market.