Android as the flavor of the month

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Today is Mobile Worker Wednesday and I wanted to lead you to yet another smartphone device/OS report. Smartphones have climbed to penetrate 25% of the market, according to Nielsen.

The NPD Group announced today that Android OS in handsets accounted for 33 percent of all smartphones purchased in the second quarter in the U.S. RIM accounted for 28 percent and Apple had 22 percent. This means that the Android operating system has topped both RIM and Apple in sales in Q2 of 2010. For the first time since Q4 of 2007, RIM has been knocked from the top spot as the top selling OS in the US. Motorola and HTC have been helping to drive that growth.

RIM still owns the overall subscriber share, but Android has strong momentum at this point. Of course, this will probably all shift again once the Windows Phone 7 handsets start coming out or if those iPhone-wanters really go out and purchase the iPhone that they crave.

Tags: Android