Android (operating system) wrote in "The New York Times" that "About one of every two computers sold today is running Android. [It] has become Earth's dominant computing platform." According to a Statistica's estimate, Android smartphones had an installed base of 1.8 billion units in 2015, which was 76% of the estimated total number of smartphones worldwide. Android has the largest installed base of any mobile operating system and, since 2013, the highest-selling operating system overall with sales in 2012, 2013 and 2014 close to the installed base of all PCs. In the second quarter of 2014, Android's share of the global smartphone shipment
Windows Mobile Smartphone Mobile Smartphones were introduced with the Pocket PC 2002 operating system for Pocket PCs. Although in the broad sense of the term "Smartphone", both Pocket PC phones and Microsoft branded Smartphones each fit into this category, Microsoft's use of the term "Smartphone" includes only more specific hardware devices that differ from Pocket PC phones. Such Smartphones were originally designed without touchscreens, intended to be operated more efficiently with only one hand, and typically had lower display resolutions than Pocket PCs. Microsoft's focus for the Smartphone platform was to create a device that functioned well as a phone and data device