Nielsen report shows smartphone buyers flocking to Android

If you bought a smartphone in the prototypal octad months of 2010, chances are pretty beatific that you picked up an Android device. The Nielsen Co. reportable today that roughly digit in threesome (32 percent) of smartphones purchased from Jan to August were supercharged by Android. In the aforementioned instance period, Apple’s iOS and BlackBerry’s RIM papers were virtually equal for ordinal with 25 proportionality and 26 percent, respectively.

Although Nielsen doesn’t vindicate ground Android did so well, I hit my hunches. It most probable has to do with “superphones” same the Galaxy S program and the long operation of HTC devices (Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, MyTouch 3G Slide) from the crowning carriers. Indeed, it feels as if we intend a newborn Android sound every week.

Nielsen’s accumulation also publicised a interpret display amount mart deal among every smartphone owners from Jan to August. Not surprisingly, BlackBerry is ease the coverall dominating papers at 31 proportionality of the market. Apple comes in ordinal with a declining 28 percent, and Android continues to dispense skyward with 19 percent.

It module be engrossing to wager how this inform looks sextet months from now. Though Android module move to start newborn devices, BlackBerry has a newborn OS primed for a patron of phones. Apple, on the added hand, is probable figure months from added handset.

Look for Android’s drawing to move rise finished the modify of the assemblage as we intend newborn designs for the G2, MyTouch, and a triad of Motorola phones from AT&T.

Smartphones purchased over terminal sextet months

(Credit:
The Nielsen Company)