The iPhone loses Market Share

by admin on March 5, 2010

Figures from Quantcast show that the iPhone has lost market share to Android in 2010.

Android has grown 8.3% in February in terms of it’s market share and now has a total of 15.2% of the smartphone market.  Exceptional if you think that the platform was announced just over 2 years ago.

Before Android really started to make headway we were all talking about the next device that would chalenge the iPhones dominance.  But it now seems that it’s not just one phone that’s doing what Apple must have been scared of but its all the Android phones combined into an army of iPhone beaters.

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Nexus One in the UK in April

by admin on February 27, 2010

Google’s Nexus One phone will go on the market in the UK in April according to The Telegraph.  There still isn’t an official release date  but knowing it will come out in April is slighlty better than just being told that it will be released the the UK public sometime in the Spring.

As is the case in the US, the phone will be sold via Google’s website www.google.com/phone.  This is the olnly place it will be sold, which seems to be Google’s policy on seling their own products.

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Android Market Catching Apple App Store

February 23, 2010

If you’re looking at the number of apps in app stores, Apple is ahead of Android.  It’s actually way ahead, 150,998 compared with 19,897 in Android Market at the time of writing.
But if you look at the percentage of apps that are free compared to paid you’ll see that Android Market has 57% free whereas [...]

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2010 the Year of the Mobile?

February 23, 2010

The number of Android devices that have come onto the market or are coming onto the market in 2010 means that this year is a year that we will look back on like many do about 1985 when the market for PC’s really took off.
If you’re a technology fan it’s really exciting.  The major players [...]

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New Google Earth App only for Android 2.1 Users

February 23, 2010

If you haven’t got a Nexus One you probably aren’t going to be using the new Google Earth App.  Android 1.5 or 1.6 users have been having trouble using it.  The best advice is to not even bother with it if you don’t have 2.1.
If you’ve got a Nexus One then go and download it [...]

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