The first time: Windows Phone overtakes the BlackBerry

According to IDC, Windows Phone OS for the first time surpassed the BlackBerry in market share

Overtaken BlackBerry
Mobile operating system Windows Phone 8 of Microsoft overrides the BlackBerry way to third place in the global smartphone race, according to IDC figures for the first quarter of 2013. Once she was in fourth place since its launch, WP overtaken the BlackBerry with 3.2 percent in the quarter smartphone shipments, while the latter records only 2.9 percent.
Please note that both operating systems still have room to grow. Android is a popular operating system for smartphones in the world, with a market share by 75 percent in the last quarter. Far behind in second place is Apple with iOS, has 17.3 percent of the market share. And how the numbers? According to IDC, about -162.1 million Android devices have been distributed to stores in the last quarter, compared with -37.4 million iPhones, seven million WP devices and 6.3 million BlackBerry devices.
What about Symbian? 's Mobile operating system Nokia, which a few years ago the most popular smartphone market, is responsible for the first quarter of 2013 to 1.2 million devices only, a market share of 0.6 percent. The reason is that Nokia has abandoned Symbian in favor of Windows Phone, and the phone with the latest operating system launched last year.

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