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74 Percent of Americans Own Google or Apple Device

A brilliant image of what is happening in the mobile world in the US was given through a survey organized by Yankee Group, a market research company. The latter has asked 15,000 respondents in the US to find out their preferences related to smartphone brands. The results can be shocking especially for those manufacturers who are standing at the brim of disappearance from the market.

Yankee Group survey thus revealed the 74 percent of all US smartphone potential buyers will opt for either Android or Apple iPhone device. The 39 percent of those asked said they will go for Android OS handsets, and the 25 percent – for the iPhone. Yes, but what about the others? It should be noted that after these two, RIM’s BlackBerry got the third place. The others were spread with 9 percent wanting a Windows Phone device and 2 – Symbian OS (still alive?). The survey further disclosed that nearly half of US phone users already own a smartphone, and the 58 percent said they are going to change their ordinary handset with a smartphone in the near future.

This means that manufacturers, say like HTC, need more innovation and marketing genius to come close to Google and Apple, and the war for the tiny percent of customers in the US will be waged even more fiercely. Katie Lewis, an analyst at Yankee Group expressed this in this way, “Opportunities within the smartphone market abound, but we’ve reached a critical point where graves could be dug for several OS vendors, decisions made in the next three years are likely to seal the fate, good or bad, of many OSs. Now is the time for these vendors to fight for survival.” I think no further comment is needed.

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January 18, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

During the I/O Event that took place in the beginning of May, Google announced that about 400,000 Android devices were activated daily. Less than two months have passed since that announcement, and now Andy Rubin, Google’s vice president of engineering and the one responsible for the Android platform, says the number of daily activated Android devices has grown to 500,000.

“There are now 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w,” reads his recent tweet.

According to IDC, not so long ago Android lost a bit of its market share (for the first time since 2009), but not because it had low sales or something. Just the iPhone4 from Verizon was really popular and had great sales, grabbing a bigger market share. But anyway, Android devices are still selling well, and besides, Android is the most popular platform among developers at the moment – 67 percent of them create apps and software for Google’s OS, and I guess  this fact is unlikely to change in the nearest future.

Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t announce how many iPhone devices are activated every day, so it’s rather difficult to compare Apple and Google. But we know that Apple activated 18.1 million devices in the second quarter of this year (January-March), and about 180 million iPhones during a year (March 2010-March 2011). 180 million/365 days = about 295.890,4. So it seems like less than 300,000 iPhones running iOS are activated by Apple daily.

But remember, it’s not really correct to compare Apple’s iOS with Google’s Android, since Apple sells only one single smartphone based on iOS, and there are many, many manufacturers (Motorola and HTC are perhaps the biggest ones among them) that develop and sell Android-based smartphones.

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June 29, 2011 | 0 Comments More

Android 2.2 iPhone from Sears.com?

I bet most of you are simply in love with Android OS and… the iPhone. At the first glance these two things seem to be non-combining, but the Sears store is offering an iPhone based on Android 2.2. Well, surely this is just a fake device apparently looking similar to the iPhone, but still giving an experience of the iPhone somehow.

Let’s see what you get packed in the iPhone case: A rather non-impressive and slow 400 MHz processor, demonstrating HD videos on the 3.5 inch display with a resolution of 320 × 480. Don’t know if some of your consider it to be a good competitor or no, but I bet it will be much fun to purchase the handset and to test fun things on it. Just like taking pictures with its 2 megapixel camera, which is expected to give clear shots.

The unlocked phone will cost the Spears customers something like $264. Well, surely this is the price tag for the non-contract version of the handset. I don’t think otherwise people would be looking for the device. And the final impressive part of the deal is that the device will come with dual-SIM cards.

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June 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More

How important is HTC HERO for HTC and Android OS?

It has been three years since the Apple released their iPhone and since then, we have seen a lot companies coming out with “iPhone-killers”, but no company till now has been actually able to offer something that iPhone offers: coolness. As odd as it sounds, but people now want easy-to-use interface, something which has no-to-very-little learning curve. HTC has released a lot handsets in the past few years and lets face it, it is through HTC that Windows Mobile is alive till now. Otherwise, it would been dead a long time back.

Last year, HTC came up with T-Mobile G1, which was the first Google Android phone, but it was never touted as ‘iphone-killer’, because it just was not one. By various online sources, HTC HERO is going to be the first real “iPhone-killer” and I too agree that HTC HERO is the first phone that has a UI that is more slick and fluid than iPhone’s UI. The phone is so much straight forward and easy to use and combined with the power and flexibility of the Android OS, looks we’ve a winner in our hands.

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HTC has done a tremendous work in customizing the Google Android OS so that even a beginner can jump-start using it. It is, however, interesting to note that myriad of HTC’s Windows Mobile phones are running the same processor  suffer from sluggishness. I am not sure the reason behind this: either Android OS is highly CPU efficient or Windows Mobile is a BETA product. Whatever the case is, we are sure about one thing: Google Android OS will very soon become the favorite OS of a lot of people around.

July 8, 2009 | 0 Comments More

Android smartphone sale to grow by 900% in 2009

Yes, you read that right. According to a research by the Strategy Analytics, the sale of Android smartphones is expected to grow by 900% in the year 2009.

According to Tom Kang, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, “We forecast global Android smartphone shipments to grow an impressive 900 percent annually during 2009. The Android mobile operating system from Google gained early traction in the United States in the second half of 2008 and it is gradually spreading its presence into Europe and Asia during 2009. Android is expanding from a low base and it is consequently outgrowing the iPhone OS from Apple, which we estimate will grow at a relatively lower 79 percent annually in 2009.”

If this report is to be believed, then the growth of Android Smartphones would lead much ahead of Apple I-Phone and Windows Mobile Smartphones, the other two biggies in the smartphone market. Because, the sale of Apple I-phone is expected to grow at a rate of about 80% (according to a report by Strategy Analytics) and that of Windows Mobile by about 50%(as told to channel web by Eddie Wu, Managing Director of OEM, Microsoft).

This figure does not seem quite difficult to achieve, when compared to the hype and craze surrounding the Android platform. We have got news about almost every major player in the mobile phone arena planning to launch an Android device. Also, we can expect some Android powered notebooks and netbooks very soon, from companies like T-Mobile and HP.

May 12, 2009 | 0 Comments More
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