mobil phone: Exploding Android Market Share: 4.3% increase since October

You knew that Droid sold well, you've been seeing in your daily life for months now, but you know how well Android made whole?

It is always difficult to get a good pulse on things your-man's view. Fortunately, we have the data: Android shot 2.8% of the smartphone market in October, to 7.1% in January.

Of course, this market share had to come from somewhere, and it came mainly from Palm and Microsoft. Palm has lost more than 2% share of the smartphone market, and Microsoft has lost a massive 4.0% in the past quarter.

Of course, everybody at this point that the reason for the recent Apple-HTC prosecution, and when might be a problem for HTC in the future, for the moment, Android has the pace in the market. What happened to Apple in the same quarter? It won only 0.3%. That counts just as an evolution at all. Here all data:




Whatever the legal outcome, the Android smartphone manufacturers who took as their next major investment in technology seem to have chosen the winning horse. Of course, Google is having some problems selling their Nexus One, but it's not like a consumer faced with a device like the Droid. Android as a whole is healthy as a peach.

Finally, whenever Microsoft launches Windows Phone Series 7 it will regain its status as major player in the market. Until then, expect them to lose more market share. As always in wars mobile, we consumers win.