Smartphone sales doubled in second quarter

Symbian extends its market share lead over Microsoft and Palm, according to the latest worldwide market share study.
Worldwide shipments of smartphones more than doubled in the second quarter of this year compared to the same quarter a year ago to 12 million now, with less than 6 million a year ago. I find this to be very good news especially for the Symbian market which has increased to 76% compared to Linux 13%, PalmOS 4%, Windows 4% and RIM 1%.
Nokia ships now 63% of all mobile devices running an OS, compared to Microsoft 16% and Palm 10%.
Also Nokia increased it's market share from 33% to 55%.
This is very good news for Symbian phone owners and especially for Nokia Series60 owners