Android overtakes RIM in smartphone sales

The popularity of the Blackberry is seriously on the wane, as Android has overtaken RIM for overall sale of smartphones. Google's well-liked Android line has spread quickly, overtaking Apple and Microsoft goods within months of the first launch of an Android phone. Far more than 170 types of devices use the Android system.

Dying of the Blackberry

When it came to smartphones, Blackberry phones were at the top of the list for Research in Motion. CNN states that the business is not at the top anymore though. All of the competition has been beaten by the Google based Android system. With 31 percent of product sales, the Android beat RIM product sales and got to the top. T-Mobile carried the first Android OS phone known as the HTC G1 which came out in Nov. 2009. In early 2010, Android had only a 7 percent share of the smartphone market, but the platform has liked constant growth since its introduction. An Android OS is now the base of more than 170 types of mobile phones and tablet computers across numerous carriers.

Old mobile phones might not last long

You will find four popular U.S. smartphone platforms. Android is the only one constantly growing though. Between February 2010 and January 2011, Research and Motion's smartphone product sales have gone down with RIM from 42 percent of the market share to 30.4 percent. Windows 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 sector share. Each day, about 350,000 new Android phones are activated. The Symbian OS offered by Nokia held a larger share of the industry than Android until late 2010, when Symbian product sales finally were eclipsed by Android.

Android Nokia phone probably will not occur

Just about every phone company makes an Android phone, as Google licenses it for free, and adapting it is fairly simple for any developer, however Nokia isn’t having it, in accordance with the Los Angeles Times. Nokia and Microsoft have a relationship now. It seems that Windows Mobile on Nokia phones will become the normal thing. To be able to get the right to put Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices, Microsoft is paying $1 billion to Nokia. Both corporations could benefit from the deal.

Citations

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