Well, at least both wins in each owns category. The Canalys has released a set of numbers for the third quarter for US, smartphone wise. Android is up 1,309 percent worldwide from this time last year, taking over 43.6 percent of the US smartphone market in the third quarter.

In terms of mobile operating system that makes it the dominant player in America, but with Apple capturing 26.2 percent it now jumps into the lead when it comes to hardware, beating out RIM’s 24.2 percent. That’s a swap from last quarter, where BlackBerries beat iPhones 32 to 21.7 percent, and worldwide things are looking the same: Apple at 17 percent compared to RIM’s 15.

However, in terms of worldwide, it’s Nokia and the Symbian Foundation that’s still dominating the stage as the leading smart phone OS vendor, owning 33 percent of the market compared to 38 last quarter, while Microsoft sits at a lowly 3 percent. With Windows Phone 7 just coming out to play with the rest of the kids, and Ballmer spending a fortune to tell the whole world about its iPhone killer, I’m sure the numbers will change drastically in a very interesting way.

SOURCE via Canalys