Android sales hotter than iPhone in the U.S.

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Recently, market research firm NPD Group reported that Q1 sales from 2010 placed Blackberry squarely on top of handsets sold. It claimed a 36% market share, while Android came in second with a 28% share. Bringing up the rear was surprisingly the iPhone with a 21% market share. It is worth noting that these rankings are based on OS and not by individual handsets.

iPhone sales have remained strong, but apparently not strong enough to stay on top of the U.S. sales market. Now that Android has overtaken the iPhone, what is Cupertino’s response? Predictably, Apple spokesperson Natalie Harrison said that the survey was “…a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide.”

What is really interesting with this quote from Harrison is the fact that she threw iPod Touch users into the smartphone tally. I suppose that’s not surprising, given that there is only a single current Apple handset on a lone carrier, while Android and Blackberries have multiple models, form factors and carriers. Now many industry watchers are keeping a close eye out to see how these figures might change after the next-generation iPhone launches.

Are you surprised about the Android and Blackberry sales figures? Leave your thoughts below.

Via: NPD, Phandroid, SlashGear

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you have plenty of CHOICE unless you want an iphone

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Just because the people on this site prefer Apples approach to a smart phone does not mean that it is the approach that everyone would choose if so given the chance. If that were the case ATT would never have introduced and be bringing more android handsets into their lineup and wouldnt sell black berries either. Granted android has more handsets by far but the experince is the same or similar on all the devices. That being said, people are making the CHOICE to have an android device over the iPhone. So stop acting like Apple has the world by the balls and get a life.

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@Hater Why would AT&T lock Apple into a 5 year contract then? AT&T knows that the iPhone is a goldmine, and they jumped all over it. Now that their contract is soon to expire, they're trying to bring in other phone such as Blackberry devices and Android devices to make money once they lose the iPhone. Also, people don't really have a "CHOICE" do they? Think about it a little bit. AT&T has the iPhone. What other smartphones are there? You have the Blackberry, and you basically have the Android devices. So if you honestly think that's a "Choice" you're wrong. You basically have a 1 in 3 chance that the customer will buy your product. And when Android has 15 different phones that all came out in the past week, sure, their more likely to purchase an Android device over the others. That doesn't mean Android is better than the iPhone, or Blackberry. In fact, I actually think it's pretty sad. They release a phone like the Nexus One, and then a few weeks later, they no longer sell it? What's wrong there?

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put into account how long the iphone has been out. apple had a massive head start.and actually, there are 3 iphones, 2g,3g and 3gs. so lets stop making excuses.next version of android, which will be unvailed next month, is rumored to improve the overall speed and performance on android by 450%!!! that is wicked.i used to be on the iphone boat as well, back when installer was kicking up dust, then came along cydia. but android is where its at. and yall should join.

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Well to me its not that surprising i mean Android isnt exactly a slacker. Iphone will of course lose its thunder as other phone's OS gets better. As they said this is just US, but i see this as something that will drive Apple to do better on newer model iphones than they have on previous models. Although i don't exactly agree with you guys Apple is a company that stays 1 phone 1 carrier and it has done great. Can you really say its unfair for Apple when thats just the way there company is? If i remember Mac is the same just because Android has more phones or sale more phones with there OS does that make them ultimately better, no.

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ok i think apple is still number one in the market share because they only have 1 device that they are selling and in android and blackberry they more then 5 phones i think even 10..

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The reason iPods were thrown into the percentage is because the study was on operating systems. iPhones and iPod touches run the same OS. And I am suprised BB has that high a percentage. I knew BBE was popular with some companies but not that popular.

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Hmm... Honestly I dislike how they compare Android to the iPhone. That's like comparing Android to Apple. Obviously Apple in general would have way more sales. Android has tons of phones, and it seems as a new one comes out everyweek. Now why would you want to purchase an android phone knowing that if you can wait two weeks, a brand new one will be out that's ever better than the last. Also like mentioned, Android is almost on every carrier. Now back to the iPhone. There is only one. If you want to count passed generations, then there is 4. Apple only runs on one carrier in the US, and two in Canada. (I'm pretty sure it's two, Rogers and Bell) So I don't really see a fair battle here. If Apple was to release the iPhone on all carriers, I'm sure that's the only phone you would see floating around. Just my thoughts

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I agree with you one hundred percent. i couldnt have said it better myself. you cant compare one phone to a bunch. wait until a new iphone comes out and we will see these sales.

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