Windows Phone leaves BlackBerry in the dust, Android still dominates in Q3

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http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/veFL2l0s43ePPCUDyQXIoA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/bgr-lumia1020-img_6054.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/windows-phone-leaves-blackberry-dust-android-still-dominates-130002722.html)Fresh evidence emerged Thursday that Windows Phone has steamed past BlackBerry to establish itself as the world’s No. 3 smartphone OS. New data from Gartner shows that Windows Phone sales hit 8.9 million in the third quarter of 2013, more than doubling the roughly 4 million Windows Phones sold in Q3 2012. Over the same period BlackBerry sales crashed and burned, plummeting from 8.9 million in Q3 2012 to 4.4 million in Q3 2013. Gartner also confirmed recent findings from IDC showing that Android now accounts for more than four out of every five smartphones sold in the world. Samsung is far and away the lead Android vendor as it sold a stunning 80.4 million smartphones on the quarter, well



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