{"id":1469,"date":"2010-05-11T02:37:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T09:47:56","slug":"android-handsets-outsell-iphone-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioninformatics.com\/blog\/android-handsets-outsell-iphone-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Android handsets outsell iPhone in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a strong showing in the UK a research report by analyst house NPD has found that <strong>mobile phones<\/strong> using the <strong>Andorid operating system<\/strong> were outselling Apple&#8217;s iPhone for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>In the new <strong>Android<\/strong> handsets accounted for 28 per cent of the market, beating Apple&#8217;s 21 per cent but still below market leader Research in Motion (RIM), which holds 36 per cent. NPD attributes the increase to the number of vendors using the <strong>operating system<\/strong>, marketing campaigns and new investment in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent previews of <strong>BlackBerry 6<\/strong>, the recently announced acquisition of Palm by HP, and the pending release of Windows Phone 7 demonstrates the industry\u2019s willingness to make investments to address consumer demand for <strong>smartphones<\/strong> and other mobile devices,\u201d said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarriers continue to offer attractive pricing for devices, but will need to present other data-plan options to attract more customers in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the major carriers AT&amp;T had the largest slice of the smartphone market, with almost a third of its customers using advanced handsets. Verizon&#8217;s share stands at 30 per cent, with T-Mobile and Sprint at 17 and 15 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Android<\/strong> may have problems in the future however. Apple is widely expected to unveil a new generation of iPhone next month and, if the leaks are accurate, it could well prove to be a huge hit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 9px;\"><b>Resource<\/b>:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.v3.co.uk\/v3\/news\/2262773\/android-handsets-outsell-iphone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a strong showing in the UK a research report by analyst house NPD has found that mobile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[90,61,111,765,53,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-1469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-enterprise-mobile-application-development","7":"tag-android","8":"tag-blackberry","9":"tag-ecommerce","10":"tag-iphone-application-development","11":"tag-smartphones","12":"tag-software"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Android handsets outsell iPhone in US | Fusion Informatics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Android handsets accounted for 28% of the market, beating Apple&#039;s 21% but still below market leader Research in Motion, which holds 36 %. 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