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With Android making a mark on the world of tablet OS with 22% market share in 2010, Canalys is now reporting that Android has over taken Symbian in Q4 2010 with Android handset makers selling close to 33 million handset in the last quarter of the year gone by. This has helped Android to go ahead of the smart phone race leaving behind the previous leader, which sold 31 million units. The difference in the sales is not that high but then this is like a wake up call for Symbian supporters to either improve the OS to take on Android or shift their strategies to a multi-OS ecosystem where they can benefit from other smart phone OSs like Android by not getting stcuk to just one OS, in this case Symbian. Android sales went from 20.3 million units in Q3 2010 to 30 million units in Q 4 2010, which is a huge jump as compared to Symbian (29.9 million units in Q3 2010 to 31 million units in Q4 2010). [via]