The IDC believes that 79% of shipped smartphones are using Android as their operating system. Apple's iOS devices took 15% of the supplied devices (about 153 million), an increase of 13% to recorded sales in the 2012.

Deliveries of Windows Phone devices almost doubled and they shipped 33 million units. However deliveries of Blackberry devices has decreased by 40%, and they delivered about 19 million units. IDC predicts that the market growth of smartphones will continue for the next several years.

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