New smartphone platforms eye inroads in hot market

A handful of new smartphone platforms are expected to become available this year, challenging the stranglehold of the two market leaders, Google's Android and Apple's iOS.

Android and Apple account for more than 90 per cent of the surging smartphone market, and third place is being contested by BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows Phone.

But phones using operating systems based on open-source platforms Linux and Mozilla's Firefox will be hitting the market this year, most likely in emerging markets.

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