Ovum: The Android will fuel a Smartphone market, doubling from 2016-FierceWireless

Global shipments of smartphones will reach 653 million by 2016, double the amount sold in 2010, according to a new forecast by the company, market research, ovum. The company is convinced that Google's Android platform will be a driving force for this abrupt, which will see the category for the device of the Smartphone has a CAGR of 14.5% between 2010 and 2016.

During this period of axis of Google will competed at Apple iOS with 38% share of the Smartphone market, compared to the Apple 17.5 percent, according to ovum.

"The Smartphone Market will see a significant increase over the next five years, outperforming the wider market of mobile phone," said Ovum analyst, Adam Leach in a statement to the press. "For the success of the Android platform is managed by the sheer number of vendors of hardware, supporting it on high and low end of the market."

According to the latest forecast of Ovum 17.5% of the market share held by the Angel iOS in 2016 will be only on a Microsoft Windows phone 7 to 17.2 per cent, which in turn will be followed closely by the BlackBerry OS in 16.5%.

Hedging his bets, Leach added: "we expect at least one other platform to achieve mainstream success at the time of the estimate. This can be an existing player on the market as Bada, WebOS or MeeGo, or is a new entrant in the market place. "

Note analyst contends that Nokia/Microsoft partnership has the potential to revamp of the Smartphone market, which will see a significant reduction in the number of based on the Symbian phones were shipped in the world, such as Nokia switches in Windows phone as a Smartphone, which is the selected axis.

However, the ovum study highlights the potential problem for Microsoft, that other handset vendors currently supporting Windows phone may sailed away the alternative OS vendors if competition of Nokia became too fierce.

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