Android now reigns supreme when it comes to sales of smartphones. Android has overtaken Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry line, and claimed the top spot for sales. Google’s well-liked and simple to develop Android operating system has dominated the smartphone industry in short order. Less than two years after the first Android was launched, more Google based cell phones are being sold than by Apple, Microsoft and now Research in Motion phones. It does not seem likely the competition will catch up. More than 170 devices have an Android OS.
Death of the Blackberry
The Blackberry line of phones made by Research in Motion has held the top spot for product sales of smartphones for a long time, but the business has finally been dethroned, in accordance with CNN. All of the competition has been beaten by the Google based Android system. With 31 percent of sales, the Android beat Research in Motion product sales and got to the top. T-Mobile carried the first Android operating system phone known as the HTC G1 which came out in November 2009. In early 2010, Android had only a 7 percent share of the smartphone industry, but the platform has liked constant growth since its introduction. An Android OS is now the base in excess of 170 types of phones and tablet computers across numerous carriers.
Work old cell phones have to go through
Android is the only smartphone in the U.S. to continuously grow even though there are four popular platforms. RIM at one point sold 42 percent of all smartphones, but Research in Motion sales have dwindled to 30.4 percent between February of 2010 and the end of Jan of 2011. Windows phones have been consistently on the decline, and now make up less than 10 percent of the smartphone sector. The iPhone has been good for Apple, however not good enough. It has stayed at a constant for the sector share. An estimated 350,000 new Android devices are activated daily. Until late 2010, when the Symbian Lost most of its sales to Android, the Symbian OS from Nokia had a bigger share than Android.
Android Nokia phone most likely won't happen
The Los Angeles Times reports that Nokia refuses to make an Android phone available even though almost every company does since Google licenses it for free. Nokia and Microsoft have a relationship now. It seems that Windows Mobile on Nokia phones will become the normal thing. Microsoft is reportedly going to pay Nokia $1 billion for the rights to put Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices, which could possibly be a net benefit for both companies if it’s successful.
Articles cited
CNN
money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/technology/android/index.htm
Los Angeles Times
latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/Microsoft-reportedly-paying-nokia-more-than-1-billion-to-use-windows-phone-os.html
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