According to Canalys, In Q2 2009 Android had 2.8% market share which had grown to 33% market share by Q4 2010 which made Android leader of smart phone OSs worldwide. The market share for commonly used mobile OSs is shown in the following pie chart.
There are different other Mobile operating systems also present in market in competition with Android. Apple's iOS and Windows Phone give strong competition to Android. A simple comparison between features and specifications of latest version of Android and other Operating Systems can be seen in the table given above.
A large no of mobile companies are using Android. A list of companies supporting Android in their hardware is:
· Acer Inc
· ALCATEL ( TCL corporation )
· Bluelans Communications
· NCE casio Mobile Communications
· Cherry Mobile
· CSL
· Dell
· Garmin
· Geeks Phone
· General Mobile
· High screen
· HKC
· HTC coroporation
· Huawei
· I-mobile
· Lenovo
· LG
· Motorola
· Samsung
· Sony Ericsson
· Videocon
. ZTE