Google's operating system for cellphones has overtaken Nokia's Symbian system as the market leader, ending the Finnish company's long reign, a British research firm said Monday.
In the three months through December, manufacturers shipped 33.3 million cellphones running Android, Google's free, open-source cellphone operating system, up from just 4.7 million a year earlier, according to Canalys, a research firm in Reading, England.
Shipments of phones running the Symbian operating system jumped 31 percent in the quarter, to 31 million, Canalys said.
Analysts said the figures represented a tectonic shift in the industry, cementing the influence of Google's advertising-driven business on the mobile Internet. And this year, according to the research firm Gartner, more people will gain access to the Internet through mobile devices than with personal computers.
"Google only wins with this," said Pete Cunningham, a Canalys analyst. "There will be more eyes on the mobile Web and more eyes seeing their advertisements."
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