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Android demand skyrockets
DEMAND FOR ANDROID OS based smartphones has suddenly made a huge jump turning the market upside down, according to figures released by Changewave Research.
A poll of people who planned to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days had 21 per cent saying that they expected to purchase a handset powered by Google's Android operating system. This figure is 250 per cent more than the six per cent that claimed Android was their mobile OS of choice in September.
Changewave's director of research, Paul Carton, said that the sudden change of interest was unlike anything he had seen in the market before. He credited Motorola for its Droid smartphone as the reason for the sudden burst in interest.
Only the Iphone OS has more interest from punters now, indicated Carton. More than 28 per cent of those who plan on buying in the next three months said that they would choose an Apple device. But this is a four per cent drop from September when 32 per cent said that they would like to acquire an Iphone.
Carton said it not that surprising that demand is moving away from the Iphone. Basically anyone who wants one already has one by now.
Android's increasing market share is good news for the peddlers of smartphones that use the operating system, Motorola and HTC. Motorola's share of smartphone purchases projected within the next 90 days shot up from 1 per cent in September to 13 per cent in December.
This marks the first rise in anticipated consumer demand for its phones that Motorola has seen for nearly three years. µ
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Is it too "SF fan" to have a headline "Android demand skyrockets" suggest immediately that there is an android somewhere bellowing "Give me skyrockets now"? Since I do have some taste, it isn't using an Austrian accent...
Or perhaps it's Google's new distribution system? Hooked into Street View, they blast your new phone into a sub-orbital trajectory for a parachute re-entry landing on the customer's doormat. And setting it on fire.
Not much interest in it, first week sales were 'only' 250,000 units....
When you start with next to nothing any gains seems huge! I'm not saying android won't take off, but will people like it enough to stick with it. Most people buy these phones not knowing what they are getting.
'Tis a shame providers where I live (AU) probably won't be offering the Droid in any of their packages 'til 2020. I really want one _<
I returned my HTC Tatoo, and got an iPhone instead when I realised, that you cannot even use Android as a bluetooth dial up or personal area netwrok to get your laptop online and the development team doesnt even have a timeline for implementing it. Android 2.0 does nothing for you here.
I have used this solution for 4 years with many different Nokia phones and I am sick of it. It gets more and more undstable on all their phones as they upgrade there platform. The worst was N95.
With the iPhone and bluetooth PAN my laptop is always connected hi speed to the internet and I never think about the connection to the iPhone. It is always there and it sufffers much less in battery life than the Nokia.
Did anyone else read that their was a possibility of getting these phones free if you got it from Google because the adds and other upcoming features would pay for the phones.
The Pulse? really?
If you weren't living under a rock (in the states) you may have noticed that Verizon bombarded us with Droid advertising. This more than anything has raised awareness of the Droid platform.
Its more the T-Mobile Pulse and similar that have raised the interest in Android.
Once again its down to the prices falling to a reasonable level. Who wouldn't be looking at a £91 smartphone that's basically unlocked, relative to a £500+ Apple unit that keeps telling you "you're not allowed"?
So many companies seem to have forgotten the key to mass acceptance is a two rather than three figure price.