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Google’s handsets have been dubbed iPhone-killers, but it’s Nokia and its Symbian operating system that has suffered most. Android’s share of the smartphone market has leapt from zero to a market-leading 36% in three years. Overall smartphone sales have doubled during this period, with Google’s OS

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mobile operating systems

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blackberry

74% the percentage of firms that now let workers use handsets other than a BlackBerry.

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21% Windows Phone’s market share by 2012, as predicted by IDC.

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365m the total number of Symbian handsets to ship by the end of 2010.

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1m the number of iPhone 3GS handsets sold within three days of its launch.

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400,000 the number of Android phones activated each day around the world.

nokiA’S fAll And Android’S riSe

picking up many of those new customers, alongside Apple’s iPhone.

Nokia had been tipped to ditch Symbian for Android, but instead plumped for Microsoft’s Windows 7 – but will it pay off, delay the inevitable decline, or even speed up the classic handset maker’s fall?

Chart: Global smartphone sales from Gartner Stats: 100millionclub.com; Apple; Google; Bernstein Research; IDC

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