Android Market Share Jumps to 72 Percent [REPORT]

Android's overall smartphone market share has jumped to 72.4% in Q3 2012, up from 52.5% in the same period last year, Gartner's latest data shows.

Most of that growth comes at the expense of RIM and Symbian, both of which lost a huge chunk of their market share.

Apple's iOS fell from 15% in Q3 2011 to 13.9% in Q3 2012, and Microsoft and Samsung's Bada managed to increase their market share, from 1.5% to 2.4% and from 2.2% to 3%, respectively.

Android's growth is even more impressive when you take into account the overall increase of smartphone saels in Q3 2012, which was 47%. Worldwide sales of all mobile phones declined 3% in that same period.

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