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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

Figures released by Comscore show Android gaining the largest chunk of marketshare in the U.S market with a 4.3% gain and RIM remain number one smartphone platform in the U.S and still managed a 1.7% increase.

Apples gains were at 0.3% whilst Palm and Microsoft took a hit with a 2% and 4.1% loss respectively.

Source: Brainstorm Tech

In it’s Q4 results, Nokia seem to have bounced back after having a few poor quarters. Sales of smartphones were up in Q4 of 2009 (12% increase over 2008). Estimated market share has increased by 2% to 39% of global phone sales.

Sources: Nokia (pdf), GSMArena

Connectedplanetonline have posted an article from the IDC that “Android will become the second largest operating system behind Symbian by 2013”

Google’s  Android will become the second largest operating system behind Symbian by 2013, according to research firm IDC. Android started with only 690,000 Android-based devices on the market in 2008, but IDC expects that number to quickly grow to 68 million units in just three years – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 150.4%.

More in the link below.

Source: Connected Planet Online