Android Gains Market Share on Other all Smartphone Platforms

ComScore’s Report: – Latest analysis of the U.S. mobile market that Android has grown significantly in the period from February to May 2010, while all other major operating systems experienced a drop in their market share.

In this period, RIM was still the leading mobile smartphone platform, dropping from 42.1% to 41.7% market share. It was followed by Apple which somewhat surprisingly dropped from 25.4% to 24.4% and Microsoft which dropped from 15.1% to 13.2%. Android was fourth on the list, but it rose from 9% to 13% market share in this same period. It was followed by Palm which dropped from 5.4% to 4.8% market share.

One has to take into account that these numbers are relative; most smartphone platforms actually gained subscribers as the smartphone market overall grew 8.1%, with 49.1 million people in the U.S. owning smartphones during this period. Still, Android is growing faster – much faster – than its competitors at this point.

As far as top mobile manufacturers go, Samsung grabbed the first place, growing from 21.4% to 22.4% market share. It was followed by LG, RIM, Motorola and Nokia, all of which lost a small chunk of their share, with the exception of RIM which grew from 8.2% to 8.7%.

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10 Seriously Cool Predictions for the Future of Your Cell Phone

Only a fool or a particularly argumentative individual would deny that cellular technology has experienced a technological resurgence of legendary proportions as of late. Following the lead of the Blackberry, iPhone, and other trendy time-savers, other companies have scrambled to mimeograph their successes – resulting in a digital rush of state-of-the-art products that pique the interest, love, and loyalty of consumers around the world. It likely comes as no shock whatsoever to learn that experts and hobbyists alike enjoy weighing in on the new developments to come. The following represent a few that, as of 2010, seem to be the most realistic ones to find themselves fulfilled within the next few years.

Phenomenal Cosmic Power in an Itty-Bitty Living Space

Sayonara, Laptop-san!

More bang for the buck.

More lucrative opportunities for selling virtual goods.

A surge in prepaid plans.

The increased popularity of GPS

Smart phones for everyone!

Mobile internet becomes the norm

More sophisticated bar code readers

Improved location-based services.

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Android Versus iPhone 3.0

Apple’s releasing some hot new features in iPhone 3.0 this summer, but will it be better than Google’s Android? Let’s take a look.

You already know what you get in iPhone 2.0, you’ve heard about what you get in iPhone 3.0. Let’s see how those features stack up against Android’s current release and its upcoming update (called “Cupcake”) feature by feature

The Breakdown

There’s a whole lot of green in the iPhone 3.0 column of that chart above, and some red and yellow in the Android side. That’s mostly because we’re comparing Android to the feature set Apple unveiled yesterday; it doesn’t mean that new smartphone buyers stuck between iPhone and Android should automatically wait for iPhone 3.0. It all depends on what you need.

The phone features that actually matter to you: While much has been made of cut/copy and paste coming to iPhone 3.0, many smartphone users say they haven’t run into many situations where they needed it. The feature that’s getting less press but may add more usefulness to iPhone 3.0 is search: with Spotlight, and within Mail, Contacts, and Calendar.

Personally, besides its Gmail client, the feature I love most about Android that the iPhone doesn’t come close to is Android’s pull-down “window shade” notification area, that lists multiple alerts. So if you’ve gotten an SMS, new email, a Twitter reply, a missed call, you can drag and drop the window shade down to see them all. (See screenshot.) The iPhone still pops up a box you have to dismiss to do anything else (include hang up a call!), which is simply an inferior way to handle alerts.

Background processes versus push notifications: While it’s wonderful in theory that Android runs background processes, Apple’s point about how it kills your battery life is absolutely true in my experience. It remains to be seen how well iPhone 3.0′s push notifications will work when they actually do come out (hence the yellow coloring in the table), but right now, the battery life point is not just a bunch of marketing hooha (which is why it got the yellow coloring in the table, too). Besides, Apple has promised and not delivered push notifications before, so we’ll believe this one when we see it.

iPhone 3.0′s application potential: The other big “remains to be seen” part of iPhone 3.0 is where developers will take the new functionality available to them in iPhone 3.0. Voice over IP, maps integration, peer-to-peer Bluetooth, media access, accessory-specific apps—these are really exciting options for application developers that will surely bloom into a million great apps and functionality that haven’t been born yet.

When you’re in control of the hardware: When two different pieces of software are competing, it’s pretty easy to for one to respond to another feature by feature, and we expect Android will offer similar features as iPhone 3.0 eventually. But when you’re in control of the hardware like Apple is, you can do things like enable accessory support—which means, for example, that diabetics can plug their glucose meter into the iPhone and download readings. Since Google’s Android is just the operating system that will run on various handsets with different hardware configurations, that sort of software-to-hardware control will not be as easy.

But given what we know now… As a former iPhone user who switched to Android, I can say: iPhone 3.0 hasn’t made me regret my decision. Yet. Right now, Android’s killer Gmail client, proper MMS support (available now), background processes (even though they kill the battery), window shade, and general Google product integration makes me a happy camper. In fact, on the chart above, the top five items are the features most important to me, and Android—right now, not this summer—hits on almost all of them.

That said, given the potential of iPhone 3.0, gamers, audiophiles, and others may disagree. What about you?

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Some information about Android 3.0 (Gingerbread)—update…

WiredView magazine reports some information regarding the Android mobile system to version 3.0. These details would have revealed summer for a podcast with Eldar Murtazin, editor of mobile – review .com.

The next major version of Android should come into being in the vicinity of mid October while first equipped terminals would be provided for the market in November / December, is in the vicinity of the holiday season. It should be noted that this could be a strategic decision since it is precisely in this period that are provided for the first smartphones running Windows Phone 7 but also the first aircraft on chrome OS. All phones will not be updated because, minimal configuration would be required, namely: a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM as well as 3.5 inch or more.

Note also that for devices with a 4 inch screen or more, Gingerbread will offer a definition 1280 × 760, which of course leaves suggest that this version will be the first truly optimized for tablets. The UI would have been redesigned and is inspired by the gallery application in which the mobinaute can navigate its local photos as well as online on Picasa Web Album. Visually quite rich, Gallery offers including transition effects and seamless communication with Google’s servers.

Finally Android should be divided into two distinct branches. Gingerbread will be reserved for high-end smartphones while versions 2.1 and 2.2 be place on performance models. 3.0 Android Google should finally have a little more control by disabling third-party software channels developed by manufacturers (HTC Sense, Motorola Blur…). This would simplify the subsequent updates.

Update:-
Eldar Murtazin clarifies that the mentioned technical specificities (1 GHz & 512 RAM) would be required step but “recommended” by Google.