Android overtakes iOS & BlackBerry as top-selling U.S. smartphone OS

Google’s Android platform now represents 17.2 percent of the global smartphone market, overtaking Apple’s iOS as the world’s third most popular smartphone OS and edging past Research In Motion’s BlackBerry to emerge as the top-selling OS in the U.S., according to new data published by research firm Gartner.

Gartner reports that global smartphone sales totaled 61.6 million units in Q2, up 50.5 percent year-over-year. Symbian remains the leading smartphone OS worldwide, controlling 41.2 percent of the market (down from 51 percent a year ago)…