Android taking over smartphone market in the USA

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Google’s Android’s popularity is taking over the market of smartphones with 17 percent of the users in the USA considering the purchase of an android-supported device in next three months. iPhone
continues to set the bar with its App Store and passionate user base with 20 percent of the users indicating their plans to purchase an iPhone.

While Android is gaining momentum among developers and consumers, RIM remains the leader among the business set. Android’s share of the smartphone market has doubled by 3.5 percent.

Apple and Android-supported devices were more likely to engage with mobile media than an average smartphone user. 94 percent of Apple iPhone users, 92 percent of Android device users, predominantly T-Mobile G1 users engaged in mobile media activities in September 2009, which is 12 percent more than smartphones users.

87 percent of the iPhone users engage in e-mail as compared to 63 percent of the Android users. Otherwise, Apple and Android users are likely to engage with news via their browser and nearly identical in their mobile application engagement.