According to IDC, 104.8 million Android-based smartphones shipped worldwide during the second quarter, representing a 106.5 percent gain over the 50.8 million handsets that launched in the same period last year. Android was able to nab 68.1 percent of the smartphone market last quarter.
Android's top competitor, Apple's iOS, was dominated by Google's operating system last quarter, nabbing only 16.9 percent market share on 26 million smartphone shipments. That figure was up 27.5 percent compared to the 20.4 million iPhones that hit store shelves during the second quarter last year.
Although IDC didn't get into financials in its study, the research firm revealed that BlackBerry OS was down 40.9 percent in the second quarter, nabbing just 4.8 percent market share on 7.4 million shipments. Symbian was down 62.9 percent to 6.8 million shipments and 4.4 percent market share.
The biggest gainer on the quarter was Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, which saw shipments rise 115.3 percent from 2.5 million last year to 5.4 million last quarter.
All told, 154 million smartphones were shipped worldwide during the second quarter, representing a 42.2 percent gain over the second quarter of 2011.
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