Canalys, the researcher reveals that Google's Android operating system turn out to be the world's top smart phone display place, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million smart phones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010.
Canalys, which crunched smart phone shipments across North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA and Latin America, said Android edged the struggling Nokia, which sold 31 million units for the quarter.
Android's market share closed slashed to its shipment total, at 32.9 percent, while Nokia was at 30.6 percent share through Q4. No. 5 smart phone provider Microsoft's unit shipments and market share were 3.1 million and 3.1 percent, respectively for Q4.
Android partly prompted by the first major marketing push of Verizon's Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris in the 2009 holiday season.
While Canalys analyst Chris Jones allowed that 2010 was a "fantastic year for the smart phone market," he expects 2011 to be a highly competitive year as Google, Apple, RIM and Microsoft tout newfangled technologies.
"Verizon will move its focus away from the Droid range, but the overall market impact will mean less carrier-exclusive deals, while increasing the AT&T opportunity for Android vendors, such as HTC, Motorola and Samsung," Shepherd added.
Most market analyst expects iPhone to easily outshine Android in the United States, nailing 10 million to 20 million unit sales via Verizon alone.
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