We’ll start our 2011 campaign with a FEELGOOD update from US data compiler Nielsen, which has released its latest set of numbers on smartphone adoption and market share in the North American mobile battleground.
This graph illustrates monthly US smartphone share for the six months to November 2010, and there’s only one line showing sustained growth – the green one. Look at the growth Android experienced between June and November:
What an amazing year for Android. No, wait. What an amazing half a year. God only knows what this comparison will look like 12 months from now. Pretty bad for RIM, we suspect. Read the full analysis over on Neilsen’s blog.
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?
Bristolboy
/ January 4, 2011What is even more impressive than this is the recent aqcuirers graph Nielsen also provided showing the OS used by people who have purchased a smartphone in the last 6 months. For this Android is over 40% with iOS and Blackberry being less than 2/3 and 1/2 of this amount respectively – with Android numbers still increasing.
Gary C
/ January 4, 2011I thought about using that graph, but it would’ve been like needlessly showboating.
MarkG
/ January 4, 2011Interesting at lunch at work today, the amount of people that had new Android smartphones on the table. Mainly HTC (Wildfire/Legend/Desire) or SonyErricsson.
I’m guessing the Android growth is not slowing, the reverse infact, it’s accelerating…
Now it’s not just Apple and RIM crapping their pants, Nokia too. I can live with RIM and Apple falling off the radar, their complacence justifies it, But It’s a shame to see such a great hardware manufacturer like Nokia lose the plot so bad. MeeGoo is not going to save them now, they need to join the OpenHandsetAlliance NOW, and every week that passes, the damage is greater.
If I had RIM or Nokia shares right now, I would be VERY worried.