Can Rival Mobile Operating Systems Beat Android at Low End?

Google’s Android smart phone operating system will have about 62 percent share in 2013, and clearly leads as the operating system for lower cost devices. 

But there are challengers, including those backed by Huawei, ZTE, Samsung, Mozilla and Nokia. But it always is tough to unseat a supplier that has such dominant market share. 

Strategy Analytics notes that the Firefox OS, Mozilla’s mobile effort, will get one percent of all global smart phone shipments in 2013, compared to 67 percent for Android.