Android now leads US smart phone sales, increased by 886% from last year

Posted by Charbax – August 2, 2010

According to market analytics company Canalys second quarter 2010 smart phone sales report, Android is the fastest selling smart phone platform in the USA between April and June 2010, with 34% of the sales in the US market, in front of Blackberry RIM who sold 32% of smart phones and Apple iOS who sold 21%.

Canalys’ detailed, globally consistent data shows it is the collective growth of Android device shipments across a range of handset vendors’ portfolios that is most remarkable. With key products from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, among others, shipments of smart phones running the Google-backed Android operating system grew an impressive 886% in Q2 2010.

As I posted in my previous post Why are we still waiting for the sub-$250 Android super phones?, this market domination in the USA is reached by the combined Android vendors without them even starting to provide much cheaper Android phones. As in my opinion, the strength of Android is not only the differentiation and increased number of features and choices, I think it is also most importantly the opportunity for competition in the smart phone industry to bring lower unlocked smart phone prices. Once Android super phones are sold below $250 unlocked, and that those can be used for pre-paid plans without long term contracts, I believe that the Android market share will even further increase.

Source: canalys.com
Found via: slashgear.com

  • http://twitter.com/mrtejkohli Tej Kohli

    That Great I want to Buy .. But Its very costly now here …

  • http://www.smartfurniture.org/ European Furniture Mississauga

    I think your predictions are very accurate. My personal experience shows it. I use to have a smart phone from one of the biggest Canadian operators. The cheapest reasonable plan was for almost $100 a month, and it included 500mb of transfer and good calling features. The contract was for 3 years, and the phone was available for $150 – it was a Nokia E71.

    Because it was my first phone service after moving to Canada, I just went for it because I liked the phone and generally the idea of internet in your palm. But migrating to other operator with different phones was difficult, because I'd have to pay extra to get out, and my smart phone wouldn't work with other operators, and it was already out-dated when I bought it.

    I'm looking for and Android phone now, but it'd be way to much to get a reasonable phone without 3-year plan. So I'm one of these “waiting for below $250 unlocked smart phone with android and good prepaid data plan” folks.

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