Crikey, stat counter Flurry has told MobileCrunch that app downloads through the Android Market grew by an astonishing 22% between November and December, helped by incredibly large numbers of Motorola DROID users idly browsing for apps on their new mobiles on Christmas Day.
Here’s a chart. Ignore the bit about Apple’s App Store growing even faster.
The data covers “total downloads” rather than “sales” so don’t go reading too much into the numbers. This could simply mean that Apple users are hooked on downloading and deleting things.
Flurry also broke down Android Market activity by handset, showing that Motorola’s DROID has taken an astonishingly huge share of the Android scene since its US launch – and has grown more since AdMob revealed its market share data earlier in December. 49% of ALL Android Market app sales on Christmas day were made using Motorola’s DROID phone, a quite superb WIN for the once-struggling mobile company.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Mohammed Porco
/ January 9, 2010Hi, I recently received a Samsung Galaxy i5700 and I have to say that I really like Google Andriod it is by far the greatest mobile os I have played with. The endless supply of apps makes every day with my phone an new experience.Sorry for my wall of text I just wanted to share my experience with android os. Have a nice day and thanks for a great blog.
Alan Colon
/ December 2, 2010Maybe you should look up the definition of the word “Literally”
Gary C
/ December 2, 2010You’re not really getting into the swing of things, Alan.