Study: Android dominated 79% of the smartphone market in 2013

A study of the smartphone market for the acquisition system "Android " on the largest percentage of the market in 2013 elapsed , where phones were almost four out of every five phones were sold in the last year, she was working the system being developed by " Google " .

The study , carried out by the firm Strategy Analytics statistics , the share system "Android " market of smartphones that were shipped during last year's percentage of 78.9 per cent of the total market .

The study added that in the fourth quarter of 2013 was shipped more than 227 thousand smart phone running " Android " at a rate of 78.4 per cent compared with all phones that were shipped during that period.

The total number of phones " iPhone " smart , charged during the last quarter of last year, 51 million phone , by 17.6 per cent, the phones that have brought the company's revenues were estimated at U.S. $ 32.5 billion , also confirmed its financial results in the last quarter of the annual .

This , and the estimated share of phones "Apple" during the 2013 total of about 15.5 per cent, occupies second place behind the phones , " Android" after shipping more than 153 million smart phone .

The system " Windows Phone " developed by " Microsoft " in third place among operating systems dominating the smartphone market , accounting for 3.6 per cent during the past year .

Have been shipped 35.7 million smart phone running " Windows Phone " in 2013 , of whom 9.4 million were shipped phone in the last quarter of the year , the phones , which accounted for 3.2 per cent of the market .

It is worth mentioning that the study comes at a time in which the study of other research firm IDC that shipments of smartphones has recorded a record high last year , and that the company " Samsung " has imposed its control over the market.

It is noteworthy that the company " Samsung " , which is the largest manufacturer of mobile operating system "Android " , shipped over the past year about 313.9 million smart phone , according to a study IDC.