RIM is no longer the king of the hill for smartphones, as the Blackberry line has fallen behind Android. RIM, Microsoft and Apple products have fallen behind Android, as the wildly well-liked OS by Google began spreading like wildfire as soon as it was released. You will find far more than 170 Android devices. Resource for this article – Android selling more smartphones than Research in Motion by MoneyBlogNewz.
Blackberry attractiveness dying
CNN states that the Blackberry mobile phones that Research in Motion created were supplying the best for smartphones for a while. The Google based Android platform has surpassed RIM in product sales after steadily outpacing all other domestic competition and safely pulling into the lead with far more than 31 percent of sales. In November 2009, the first Android operating phone came out at T-Mobile. It was the HTC G1. Since the Android came out, it has been growing continuously although it only had a 7 percent sector share for smartphones in 2010. Over 170 types of phones and tablet computers are using the Android OS now.
It is hard for old phones to make it
There are four popular United States smartphone platforms. Android is the only one consistently growing though. Research in Motion at one point sold 42 percent of all smartphones, however RIM sales have dwindled to 30.4 percent between February of 2010 and the end of January of 2011. Less than 10 percent of smartphones are Windows phones that have been going down for some time. Apple, with its flagship product the iPhone, has held fairly constant. Each day, about 350,000 new Android cell phones are activated. The Symbian OS offered by Nokia held a larger share of the market than Android until late 2010, when Symbian sales finally were eclipsed by Android.
Probably won't be seeing an Android Nokia phone anytime soon
Just about every phone business makes an Android phone, as Google licenses it for free, and adapting it is fairly simple for any developer, but Nokia isn’t having it, according to the Los Angeles Times. It was recently announced that Nokia is planning to revamp its offerings by partnering with Microsoft and installing Windows Mobile on Nokia phones. Microsoft is reportedly going to pay Nokia $1 billion for the rights to put Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices, which could possibly be a net benefit for both businesses if it is successful.
Citations
CNN
money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/technology/android/index.htm
Los Angeles Times
latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/03/Microsoft-reportedly-paying-nokia-more-than-1-billion-to-use-windows-phone-os.html
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