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Android OS smartphone sales grow 700 percent

article published on 19 May, 2010

According to the latest figures from Gartner, Symbian (by Nokia) remains the most popular smartphone operating system worldwide, although it is growing at a much slower pace than its rivals. Nokia stood on top the leader board for the latest quarter with 24.1 million units sold. RIM, which creates the BlackBerry devices was in second at 10.6 million units sold. Apple, which only has one ... [ read the full article ]

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20. May 2010 @ 00:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can someone please fix this article? I don't think that Apple's only smartphone is called the "iPhoneAndroid"
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20. May 2010 @ 01:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
< strong > tag missing a ">" at the end there, thanks for headsup Killer.

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20. May 2010 @ 02:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"Microsoft still charges handset makers a license fee for the operating system."

How pathetic...charging for an OS? Who do they think they are, Apple?
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21. May 2010 @ 15:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I love how we have adopted miss use of percentages. Percent is really based on the whole and is a factor between 0 and 1 represented in hundreds, so therefore you can't have more than 100%. In this case it would be a factor of 7x or 7 fold not 700%.
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21. May 2010 @ 21:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
I love how we have adopted miss use of percentages. Percent is really based on the whole and is a factor between 0 and 1 represented in hundreds, so therefore you can't have more than 100%. In this case it would be a factor of 7x or 7 fold not 700%.
percentage means out of 100 doesn't say can't be above 100

700 out of 100 = 700%
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
I love how we have adopted miss use of percentages. Percent is really based on the whole and is a factor between 0 and 1 represented in hundreds, so therefore you can't have more than 100%. In this case it would be a factor of 7x or 7 fold not 700%.
Percentage can ABSOLUTELY be above 100 percent.
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21. May 2010 @ 23:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
can be over 100% as the space shuttles throttle back at 105% on their liquid fueled engines.
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