Android to overtake Iphone

Android is free & open source, so it will likely find its way to VERY inexpensive devices/phones. Apple does not normally play in the low cost device market. Thus, it is quite plausible that Android will overtake the iPhone, thanks to low cost, high volume devices/phones.

....10 minutes ago. I bought my wife a Belkin iPhone 3G cover in black with a red motif. My wife loves her iPhone and I can understand that. For me it's just too limited as a communications tool and can't really be used with one hand. She has all the extra software installed which allows MMS, rotating keyboard, etc...but she still can't forward an SMS.

I like Windows Mobile but I like my PDA phones to have power and speed the same as I like my computers to have power and speed (if most users would just clear their phones memory they wouldn't have slow downs or crashes).

Both WM and Apple are expensive and offer more than the average user wants or needs and in the case of Apple, doesn't give some very necessary features such as MMS.

It's not too difficult to see another system coming from new to first place if it works well, offers all major communications features and is cheap.

Someone wake me up when you can develop under Android in something other than Java...

iPhone very usable with one hand with better than average coordination.

After having Windows-based phones for years, I bought the T-Mobile G1 last week. It's SOOO much better!! Of course the first app I downloaded from Android Market was "FART MACHINE" (it even has a timer for surprise fart attacks!)......But Android is the future, perhaps the iPhone killer!

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Not if your driving, using the phone, taking notes, etc...it is not a business phone and isn't marketed as one. My HP 612c with it's touch sensitive ring integrated in the center of the keypad AND the joy-stick control on the side of the phone can, and is designed for, be used with one hand. It is a business phone and is marketed as such. It also has handwriting recognition which is a must for business use. The iPhone is great for what it is designed to do although MMS and SMS forwarding should have been included. Windows Mobile is more for business...no arguments needed.

The iPhone is a consumer device and as such, consumers buy it. It's short comings don't seem to matter to consumers but they definitely matter to businesses. When your battery life starts getting shorter and you can't swap it out with a new one, you'll wish you had gotten an Android phone. Anyone who is an AT&T customer won't be getting any phone from them that outperforms the iPhone any time soon. Not at $197.

I'm sure these industry clowns said the same thing about the iPod. Has it ever come about? Nope.

Apple will come up with some other device or improved functionality on the current one that'll make people want to buy the newer version of whatever "iPhone" they have in two years. If Android or WM sell more it'll just be because they can sell it on many more cheaper devices, not so much because people prefer it over the iPhone.

Don't forget that this will very soon be 100% open source and has a proven track record on low cost (sub £100) devices, while also proven on higher-end devices that require half the CPU power of an iPhone.

Why Americans completely overlook Nokia is beyond me.

Actually att will be getting there own android based phone this year for around 180 with contract.

If people want Android phones more than iphones, and overtakes their market share, wouldn't that mean they prefer Android phones more than iPhones? Isn't cost also a factor when you prefer something over another thing?

(Here comes the fanboi train...)

Does everything.

Why do you need any other phone?

Unless your poor I guess ...

Android applications come off as gimmicky phone apps. Some iPhone games like Monkeyball have full motion PSP level games. How is Android an iPhone killer? They aren't even in the same category.

Apple remains a small player in this market for the inverse reason they remain a minority player in the desktop market.

You ask an Apple user about games on a desktop they reply, 'I don't play games I like to do things with my computer games are for Windows users' the inverse applies the phone market, except the majority don't buy their phones to play games. The InQ seems to be on a Jebus phone kick recently, but little has changed to benefit, and just like ipod dominance is waining (despite my owning a few and likely to purchase another by summertime), the iphone never had that dominance, it is strong in a niche of a niche market, but it's nowhere near the same as the iPod's success/dominance. Palm had both greater success and more sales, and it toppled pretty quickly one RIM and M$ built their better mousetraps, now it's simply the next round, with some new and old players.

Android will just add another stiff competitor (along with recent return player Palm) to the list of those out to diminish the lead Apple jumped out to with their iPhone, since then it's not the phone that had done anything impressive, it's the app store built ontop of itunes that has kept it running, but even that benefit dissapears as we head to 4G, especially as the novelty of the app store wears off and the app developers realize they can make more money by selling to the whole market not just a chunk.

Like Adobe those who cut their teeth on Apple, will mature and move on to the greater market, and leave apple to work to maintain market share.

2012? Heck I give the Jesus phone to 2010 to prove it's worth a mid-contract refresh buy. At this point, I'd just buy another iPod and stick with a phone that works at being a smartphone better, not being a 3rd generation nGage.

Well, Knightshader, not sure where you get your facts but first the ipod is not waning. Even in a depression their sales are still up. Even Microsoft's Zune didn't manage to do much damage to their market share. Apple's desktop market share is still growing too. They reached 10% from 7% not too long ago. And iPhone's growth is fairly strong still as well. Seems to be your just interested in bagging on Apple. I am not the some great Apple fan, but I do believe in facts.

There are no GSM carriers in this area so we have to use CDMA carriers like US Cellular, Verizon, and Alltel.

None of them have Android phones yet so we're out of luck. No iPhones either.