According to Gartner's second-quarter numbers, Android gained 15.2 percent of total smartphone OS market share year-over-year. Gartner put Google's Android OS at just 1.8 percent of total smartphone market share in the second quarter of 2009. That's jumped to 17.2 percent in the second quarter of 2010.
Android overtook Apple's iPhone OS to become the No. 3 OS in the world. In the U.S, it also overtook RIM's OS to become the top smartphone OS in the region.
"A non-exclusive strategy that produces products selling across many communication service providers (CSPs), and the backing of so many device manufacturers, which are bringing more attractive devices to market at several different price points, were among the factors that yielded its growth this quarter," said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, in a statement.
Overall, Gartner found that worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a 13.8 percent increase from the same period in 2009. Smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19 percent of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5 percent from the second quarter of 2009.
