Android supplying more smartphones than RIM

Research in Motion has fallen behind Android in product sales numbers for smartphones, as the Blackberry line is falling in popularity. Google and the uber-popular Android OS have taken over the sector, and less than 2 years after the first Android was released, Android cell phones are outselling Microsoft, Apple, and Research in Motion goods. It does not seem likely the competition will catch up. Far more than 170 devices have an Android OS.

Blackberry Manages to lose some juice amongst customers

When it came to smartphones, Blackberry cell phones were at the top of the list for Research in Motion. CNN reports that the company isn't at the top anymore though. With over 31 percent of sales, the Google Android platform has beat RIM sales while steadily beating out all competition. The first phone using the Android operating system was the HTC G1, which was released in November 2009 and carried exclusively by T-Mobile. In early 2010, Android had only a 7 percent share of the smartphone sector, however the platform has loved constant growth since its introduction. An Android OS is now the base of more than 170 types of phones and tablet computers across numerous carriers.

It’s hard for old mobile phones to make it

Of the four popular smartphone platforms in the United States, the only one that has constantly grown market share is Android. Between Feb. 2010 and January 2011, Research and Motion's smartphone product sales have gone down with Research in Motion from 42 percent of the industry share to 30.4 percent. Windows phones have been continuously on the decline, and now make up less than 10 percent of the smartphone industry. Apply has stayed pretty constant in its smartphone share with the iPhone. Every day, about 350,000 new Android cell phones are activated. A larger share of the sector was held by Symbian OS from Nokia than form Android until late 2010. This was when the Android product sales came up and Symbian OS product sales went down.

Android Nokia phone probably will not happen

Just about every phone company makes an Android phone, as Google licenses it for free, and adapting it’s fairly easy for any developer, but Nokia isn’t having it, according to the Los Angeles Times. Nokia and Microsoft have a relationship now. It seems that Windows Mobile on Nokia phones will become the normal thing. To be able to get the right to put Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices, Microsoft is paying $1 billion to Nokia. Both corporations could benefit from the deal.

Information from

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