Google's Android Becomes the Second Largest Mobile Operating System in Only Two Years

Google's newly popular mobile operating system, Android, has now almost closed up on the market leader Nokia's Symbian, despite its launch being only two years back. Thursday, in an official tweet by the head of Google’s Android business, Andrew Rubin stated that: "There are over 300,000 Android phones activated each day.”

Android has been offered free of cost to any cell phone vendor company regardless of anything, although it still trails the Symbian by a noticeable margin according to the September quarter analysis. But in the analysis it was already way ahead of Apple's popular iPhone system or any other used by Research in Motion on its Blackberry devices for that matter.

Only few a vendors like HTC Corp, Motorola and Samsung Electronics collectively sell a daily average of around 218,000 Android phones according to the calculations of July-September quarter. On the other hand, the leading Symbian operating system has been selling roughly around 325,000 smart phones on a daily average of the same time period. This analysis was made by Canalys, a research firm, which also made the assumption of mobile sales volume to likely rise much higher in the fourth quarter of this year. Tim Shepherd, a senior analyst at the firm, also made his judgment that "Nokia could continue to grow volumes now it has a new portfolio. It will be close either way."