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It seems that for the first time, smartphones running on Google’s Android OS have outsold the iPhone for the first time in the U.S.

Google’s Android-based smartphones accounted for 28% of smartphone sales, while the iPhone accounted for 21%, according to market research firm NPD.

I can think of MANY reasons for this. The iPhone is only on one US carrier (AT&T) and is at the end of its product life so sales would be naturally down (in my eyes) as more people will be waiting for the next generation iPhone.

It’s still quite an achievement for Google and the Open Handset Alliance but I suspect things would have changed back to the iPhone at number 2 once the next gen iPhone is released!

Source: Yahoo News

doubleTwist has recently been updated to include the ability io search for Android Market apps within the doubleTwist application.

I’ve not tried the update yet as I am currently using Banshee in the Ubuntu 10.4 beta to sync music with my Nexus One but I will give doubleTwist a whirl if the Android Market search feature ends up turning out good.

doubleTwist is turning into one of the most Android friendly sync applications available on Mac and Windows!

Today Opera released Opera Mini 5 on the Android Market. Initial impressions from me are, it’s FAST! The compression done by Opera’s servers make pages render on your handset very quickly, even on a GPRS connection.

Engadget have posted a brief but nice little review of it here and seem just as impressed with its speed. If you’re an Android user, give it a spin! It’s free afterall!

Good news for Dropbox users. An official Dropbox app is coming to Android! Androinica have posted a quote from an email from Dropbox to users saying:

“Do you own a BlackBerry or Android phone? Don’t worry! We’ve got plenty more mobile magic coming soon!”

As I use Dropbox myself I can’t wait for this to arrive.

Dropbox is an online storage service with free accounts offering 2GB of online storage and higher paid services. All major operating systems are currently supported and there is already an iPhone application.

Source: Androinica, Dropbox

Handmark have an offer where you can get Tweetcaster for free for just one tweet!

Follow the link and tweet for your free app. http://tinyurl.com/TCAndroid

An official WordPress app is now available on the Android Market.
It’s based on wpTOgo (an app I posted about before). I’ll be giving it a good testing as I post more content here. This is my first post on the app if you’re interested and it is working fine on my Archos 5 so far.

More info in the article below with download links too!

Source: Phandroid