Big stuff going on in the Android market.  They’ve taken the #2 spot for global market share, according to a new Gartner report. Figures shown in the third-quarter cellphone sales speaks of a bright future for the mobile industry. Global cellphone sales grew by 35% compared to the same quarter last year, while smartphone unit sales doubled, occupying 19.3% of the cellphone sales market.

Among all platforms that the mobile industry has today, Google’s Android is what outshines them all as it experiences an incredible surge, and now occupies 22.5% of the global smartphone market.  During the same 3rd quarter period a year back, Android sold less than 5 million units which is 3.5% of the market. This figure shows a jaw-dropping increase of 1,440%, to over 20 million Android devices sold for Q3 2010.  The success for Android devices sold is somewhat of a combined effort of course, though it’s been a mutually beneficial one, for Google and handset makers.

While the world’s top cellphone manufacturer Nokia, managed to increase cellphone sales by 10 million units, it is still losing market share to the rapidly growing mobile market, accounting to 8.5% loss on the overall cellphone market, and 8% in smartphone sales. iOS is also losing by 0.4% compared to Q3 of 2009, but their sales have almost doubled from 7 million to 13.5 million. RIM also lost 5.9% marketshare while unit sales climb ending at 12 million from 8 million last year.

Microsoft’s Window’s Mobile platform is a slowing trend, and dives from 7.9% market share to 2.8%.  Microsoft hopes to pick things back up, however, with early interest in its newest Windows Phone 7 from a dveloper’s standpoint.  The software giant also spent some time learning from its comptitors’ entrance into the mobile arena, with plans to work its mobile OS differently than Android’s highly fragmented system.

Android’s success is driving a lot of business, even in telephony. Skype recently updated its recently launched Android app, improving its stability, adding support for lower screen resolutions, better hardware support and several bug fixes, among other updates.  While Skype is busy readying its integrated strategy towards an IPO, the Android platform is encouraging of the mobile browser industry as well.  The past week saw updates for Firefox and Opera solutions for Android.