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Android shows explosive growth in USA while iPhone is still the leader !

on January 4, 2011 – 6:32 am4 Comments

A market research report was published yesterday by The Nielsen Company and it confirms the fact that Android is seeing explosive growth in USA. Over 40% of users who bought a smartphone in the last 6 months chose Android.  Despite the fast growth , iPhone continues to be the market leader in terms of overall market share at 28.6%But the gap between Android and iPhone for smartphone marketshare is quickly shortening and the iPhone might loose the top spot to Android if the current growth continues.Things don’t seem so great for Blacberry maker RIM whose market share has been on a downward slope.

Apple releases only one iPhone every year and we have tons of Android handsets flooding the market every few weeks. It’s certainly interesting to watch the battle of the Smartphone OSes

Source:Nielsen

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Varun Krish is a Mobile Technology Enthusiast and has been blogging about mobile phones since 2005. His current phones include the Nokia Lumia 800 and Apple iPhone 4S. You can follow him on Twitter @varunkrish and on Google+ You can also mail Varun Krish

  • raman

    I will defenitely buy an andoroid phone in next 15 days.
    Continue the good work … Godspeed.

  • addicious

    Don’t you think “Downward slope” would sound more appropriate instead of “Download slope” ;)

    • http://www.fonearena.com Varun Krish

      LOL nice catch .. looks like I was downloading stuff when writing this

  • http://www.sourcebits.com/ Android Development

    iPhone ruled untill now but I think 2011 would be the year for Android.