The Android platform has finally taken the lead in smartphone market share, leaving Nokia, Apple and RIM in the dust. That's according to analytics firm Canalys, which tracked worldwide smartphone shipments throughout 2010 and just published its numbers for the fourth quarter of the year. The firm says that 32.9 million Android devices shipped worldwide during the fourth quarter 2010, compared to the previous leader (Nokia's Symbian platform) at 31.0 million.
Canalys tracked a total of 101.2 million smartphone shipments during the quarter, which represented an 89 percent growth year-on-year. Shipments for the entire year of 2010 almost reached 300 million, representing an 80 percent growth over 2009. Because of this, all platforms tracked by Canalys saw growth between 2009 and 2010—except for Microsoft, which saw a 20.3 percent decline.
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