Symbian is now feeling the heat of the new Smart Phones OSs in Asia too. After screwing Symbian's happiness in the US, Android has now overtaken Symbian as a smart phone OS in the APAC market. This report has been published by GFK, where leading smart phone manufacturers are now toying up with more user friendly smart phone OSs apart from Symbian and Android is getting all the attention. In Q3 2010, 4.7 million smart phone units were sold in Asia as compared to 1.2 million at the same time last year. Android overtook Symbian, thanks to its strong growth in Q2 and Q3 2010. Though Android has overtaken Symbian in terms of value and unit sales in overall Asia, North and Southeast Asia show a bit different trends. North Asia experiences the strongest competition when it comes to smart phone OSs based mainly on the strategies of the manufacturers. In South East Asia, Symbian is leading but the sales are showing a gradually decline. With Nokia still sticking to Symbian for its smart phones, it is the need of the hour that they port some of their smart phones to Android and other OSs. Samsung and LG, who are strong in North Asia have already started launching Android based phones.
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