In quarter two of this year Chinese manufacturer Huawei moved into second place overtaking Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments according to data from IDC, Canalys, and Strategic Analytics.
The cellphone market is still booming isn't it? In the last 8 months, over 850 million cellphones have been sold world-wide with Samsung leading the way in mobile device sales and Android shooting up the tables as the favoured operating system.
The success of Android continues to grow, and according to third quarter data in 2011, its rise soared. New figures published by Gartner found more than half of all smartphone sales are running the Android OS platform.