The Android software platform from Google climbed in the first quarter to a dominant place on the computer applications market for smartphone devices, according to Canalys market research company, quoted by Reuters.

The information highlights how fast Google progressed on the smartphone market, offering free software to phone producers.

Google increased its lead over Nokia and exceeded Apple’s share on the mobile software market.

Apple and Google have changed the smartphone market in the past few years and left behind the former leader Nokia.

HTC, Sony Ericsson, Motorola Mobility, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics bet on Android to build themselves a solid position on the smartphone market.

According to Canalys, in the first three months of 2011, the market saw an increase of 83% compared to the same period of 2010 to 101 million phones.

Google’s software platform has raised its market share to 35% from around 10% a year ago. The share of Symbian software from Nokia fell 45% to 26%.