Ovum: Android to dominate smartphone growth, Windows Phone will beat BlackBerry

In a press release on Friday, research firm Ovum stated that the smartphone market will double by 2016, led by devices running Google’s Android operating system. Ovum predicts that Android will drive smartphone growth moving forward, and that it will amass 38% of the global market by 2016. At that time, Apple will own 17.5% of the smartphone market and BlackBerry maker RIM will hold a 16.5% market share. Despite Nokia’s current seat at the top of the cell phone market, Ovum sees the Finnish giant only helping Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform to eek a 17.2% share of the smartphone market. While this would place Windows Phone in the No. 3 spot ahead of RIM’s BlackBerry OS, it also suggests

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/25/ovum-android-to-dominate-smartphone-growth-windows-phone-will-beat-blackberry/

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