Does Android System Overtake Symbian System

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If you are someone wants to buy a new cell phone, maybe you will search particular information about all kinds of mobile phones. Taking an overlook on the mobile market, which one is your best choice?

Now in the mobile market, there are four main systems-Android system, ios system, Windows phone system and Symbian system.

Symbian system has always occupied the leading position in the mobile market for almost ten years. But now, Google’s operating system for cell phones has overtaken Nokia’s Symbian system as the market leader, ending the Finnish company’s long reign.

In June 1998, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Mitsubishi and Psion set up joint venture Symbian Ltd. in London. In 2000, the world’s first mobile phone based on Symbian operating system is Ericsson R380 Smart phone, which adopted Symbian5.0 system. The phone is known as the originator of the smart phone.

In June 2008, Symbian Company wholly owned by Nokia to acquire, and Symbian Company becomes Nokia’s subsidiary. In 2008, Symbian smart phone shipments total more than 200 million. Shipments of phones running the Symbian operating ...
... system jumped 31 percent in the quarter, to 31 million.

At the end of 2010, a message displays from Samsung: from 9:00 on December 30, Samsung stops technical support for Symbian OS development, and on December 31 completely stopped. And then Nokia support Symbian OS development on its own.

And then let’s have a look on Android system. Android operating system developed originally by Andy Rubin, and it is the first major support for mobile phones. In 2005, Google acquired the high-tech enterprise Android, which is established only for 22 months. On September 22, 2008, American carrier T-Mobile Germany officially released the first Android phone-T-Mobile G1 in New York. This phone is the world’s first mobile phone using the Android operating system. At that time, all mobile phone industries are not optimistic about the Android operating system, and claimed that Android will be Google closed up to one year.

However, in July 2011, according to the data by Google, Android new users have reached 550,000 and Android device users got a total of 135 million. Next month, Google acquired Motorola mobile. Until last month, Android's market share has got 43 percent.

Phones powered by Android first appeared on the global market two years ago. At the end of 2010, only two years of the formal launch of the Android operating system has surpassed the Nokia Symbian system who dominate the mobile phone for decade, and ranked the world’s most popular smart phone platform. It seems Android will overtake Symbian.

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