80% of Verizon Sales Attributed to Android
Matthew Goodman, an analyst at the ITG Investment Research, did a lit bit of digging and found out that Android has been responsible for about 80% sales of smartphones at Verizon. However, once you give it a thought, this fact should not come as a surprise as the smartphone lineup of Verizon comprises of the [...]
Android Gains the Top Position in the U.S.
The Android platform Google offers has gained the top position in the smartphone market in the U.S. According to the NPD Group, 44% of smartphones were installed with devices with Android OS during the third quarter. Jobs’ Mob’s iPhone occupied the second position with 23%. RIM’s Blackberry was third in line with 22%. NPD tracks [...]
Google Android: The New Smartphone Platform
According to Gartner, Google Android now stands second in the line of the operating systems used by Smartphones. Research confirms that around 25.5% of the Smartphones use Google Android and stands second only to Symbian, which is being used in about 36.6% of the handsets. Symbian also beat Google Android last year in the same [...]
More than 65,000 Android phones are shipping every day
At Google’s annual shareholder meeting, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt announced that Google partners are shipping roughly 65,000 Android-powered handsets per day. Tweet
