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Android is number one OS among US phone buyers over the last six months

October 6th, 2010        

Android is number one OS among US phone buyers over the last six months

Enough with the ‘iPhone vs. Android’ already. Here’s another fact that further cement the proof of Android’s uprising and domination of the world. Android’s exponential growth has today been proven by Nielsen’s statisticians who present us with the above chart of recent US smartphone purchases. It shows that over the six months leading up to August 2010, 32 percent of American new phone buyers had grabbed themselves a device with Google’s OS on board, which is comfortably ahead of RIM at 26 percent and Apple at 25 percent.

These results somehow verified NPD’s figures on the matter – which peg Android at 33 percent of new US purchases. A strong proof that Android is gaining strong momentum in this market, and perhaps might dominate it in the future. Here’s one more chart showing total market share can be found after the break. Somehow Blackberry is still holding strong in this market. Then again, all these are numbers in the US only. But they still prove a point.

Android is number one OS among US phone buyers over the last six months

SOURCE via Nielsen.com

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