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Android handsets have been the hottest selling smartphones in 2010, comprising 32 percent of all smartphones sold, according to new statistics from The Nielsen Company.
Research in Motion’s Blackberry platform and Apple’s iPhone trailed Google’s platform from January 2010 through August 2010, with 26 percent and 25 percent of the total market, respectively.
Nielsen is careful to point out the data includes one full month of sales of iPhone 4, which launched in late June.
Overall, Android’s presence isn’t nearly as ubiquitous. Blackberry commands 31 percent of the total U.S. smartphone market, followed by Apple with 28 percent and Android with 19 percent.
Nielsen’s data is the latest addition to the carousel that has become researchers’ calculation of mobile platform market share, the recurring theme of which is Android’s rise to power versus Blackberry and iOS.
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