Android selling far more smartphones than Research in Motion

In the war for supremacy in the market for smartphones, the Android operating system has finally toppled Research in Motion and the Blackberry line. RIM and the Blackberry line were the best supplying smartphone for some time, but after Google’s wildly popular Android line was launched, it quickly began outpacing Microsoft, Apple and now the RIM line in short order. You will find far more than 170 Android devices. Resource for this article – Android selling more smartphones than Research in Motion by MoneyBlogNewz.

Customers not needing Blackberry as much

CNN states the Blackberry mobile phones that Research in Motion created were selling the best for smartphones for a while. The Google based Android platform has surpassed Research in Motion in sales after steadily outpacing all other domestic competition and safely pulling into the lead with far more than 31 percent of product sales. The first phone using the Android OS was the HTC G1, which was released in Nov. 2009 and carried exclusively by T-Mobile. Since the Android came out, it has been growing continuously although it only had a 7 percent industry share for smartphones last year. Over 170 types of phones and tablet computers are using the Android OS now.

Old cell phones might not last long

Of the four popular smartphone platforms in the U.S., the only one that has continuously grown market share is Android. Between February 2010 and January 2011, Research and Motion's smartphone product sales have gone down with Research in Motion from 42 percent of the sector share to 30.4 percent. Windows cell phones have been regularly on the decline, and now make up less than 10 percent of the smartphone industry. The iPhone has been good for Apple, but not good enough. It has stayed at a constant for the market share. An estimated 350,000 new Android devices are activated daily. A larger share of the sector was held by Symbian OS from Nokia than form Android until late 2010. This was when the Android product sales came up and Symbian OS product sales went down.

Chances of Android Nokia phone

Just about every phone business makes an Android phone, as Google licenses it for free, and adapting it’s fairly simple for any developer, but Nokia isn’t really having it, in accordance with the Los Angeles Times. It was recently announced that Nokia is preparing to revamp its offerings by partnering with Microsoft and installing Windows Mobile on Nokia phones. Both businesses may be okay with the deal considering Nokia is getting $1 billion from Microsoft so it can put Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices.

Information from

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