Gartner hasn’t yet issued a report on its latest forecast – the predictions were offered through an interview with analyst Ken Dulaney in a Computerworld article – but it represents what would be a dramatic reshaping of the mobile world.

According to a Gartner report from May of this year the Nokia Symbian mobile operating system accounted for 49.3% of the worldwide market in the first quarter of 2009, down from 56.9% in the first quarter of 2008. Nokia’s platform is hugely popular in Europe and some Asian markets, but not as prevalent in North America. Research in Motion’s BlackBerry smartphone OS held 19.9% of the market, up from 13.3% the year before, while the iPhone OS accounted for 10.8% of the market, up from 5.3% in the first quarter of 2008.

The big question, of course, is what is going on in the market that will cause the Google Android platform to enjoy such a huge surge? A big factor is the number of Android-based smartphones in the pipeline. In 2010 it is expected that as many as 40 models of Android devices will ship.

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