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Yesterday the NPD Group released a report that shows Google’s Android OS now dominates 33% of the U.S. market share with RIM’s BlackBerry OS trailing in second with 28% and Apple steady at 22%. [via MobileBurn]

We already knew about Android making its way onto the iPhone, but now we have a version of Froyo there too. Ok, so it isn’t a bells-and-whistles all-singing-all-dancing exaple of an Android port, but its still great to see. All the problems with this port so far are to be expected. The device runs very [...]

AdMob have released their latest statistics for April. AdMob are a worldwide company that has a good read on the pulse of the smartphone OS market. It is important to note that that these are not market estimates of actual sales. Instead, they are a ‘snapshot of the month of April 2010 in AdMob’s network’. [...]

It appears that our lovable Android friend has got a bit of momentum going on his side in the United States. According to the NPD Group, Android smartphone sales have pushed Apple’s iPhone out of the number 2 position in the U.S. for the first quarter of 2010. Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform still holds [...]

Ok, so Apple aren’t rolling out Android to their new iPhone heading our way this summer, but you will soon be able to run the Android OS on your old iPhone. For real! iPhone hacker and Dev-Team member Planetbeing has been “working on this quietly in the background” but now he has Android successfully working [...]

A report from analytics group Flurry Inc. predicts that Google sold roughly 80,000 units of its Nexus One smartphone in the phone’s first month.  That doesn’t compare all that well with the DROID’s roughly 525,000 units in its first month, or the original Apple iPhone’s estimated 600,000 back in 2007. Of course there are a [...]

According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, the Google Nexus One has not taken the world by storm. The latest Android offering has just passed the one week mark and estimates based upon web traffic data suggest that Google has sold a paltry 20,000 Nexus One handsets. When compared to other major handset launches, the Nexus [...]

Korea may become the next battleground in the war between Android and the iPhone for smartphone dominance. On the one side, we have KT Telecommunications which is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in Korea and on the other, we have rival SK Telecom which is gearing up to release ten Android handsets in 2010. [...]

It is nice to see Android gaining ground on its competition in both the big markets and the small. We covered last week some of the big trends, today we have a little one to share. O’Reilly Media, well-known technical book supplier, sells e-book copies of their hardcover books as individual applications in both the [...]

Android fans will love it and iPhone fans will hate it, but the latest Verizon Wireless Motorola DROID commercial is genius. Emphasizing its unabashed manliness, the commercial calls the iPhone a “tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty queen” and the DROID as fast as a “racehorse duct taped to a scud missile”. Yeah, they went there. We won’t spoil [...]