Samsung’s success sees Android software dominate smartphone market

The success of Samsung’s Android phones helped Google’s operating system extend its dominance in the smartphone market as four Android phones were shipped for every iPhone in the second quarter of this year.

Samsung and other phone makers shipped nearly 105m Android smartphones from April to June, giving Android 68% of the worldwide market, up from 47% last year.

The gains came largely at the expense of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and the Symbian phones made largely by Nokia. Each saw its market share drop below 5%. Nokia is now making phones that use Microsoft’s Windows system.