Android sales tipped to overtake iPhone by end of year
Apple's supremacy may sometimes seem unstoppable – the company's PR certainly helps – but it has a serious rival in Android, the operating system owned by Google.
And according to research by AdMob and Ovum, Android handsets and apps could both soon overtake Apple handsets and app downloads in popularity.
First pinch of salt to be taken: AdMob, unsurprisingly a mobile advertising agency, is owned by Google, so it's perhap no surprise to see they're firmly part of the Android cheerleading family.
That said, the company's assertion that Android users will outnumber iPhone users by the end of this year is a bold one.
Ovum, meanwhile, reckons that the Android platform will be responsible for 26 per cent of app downloads by 2015, compared to 22 per cent for the iPhone (down from 67 per cent last year).
As we reported earlier this month, LG is just one manufacturer planning to flood the market with Android handsets, while Google's Internet TV will also use the Android platform.
With pressure (perhaps) mounting at Apple HQ as a result of grumbles over reception issues with the iPhone 4, it looks set to be an interesting and competitive year for multimedia mobiles.
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more expensive ?
Another year, another iPhone. Released on the 24th June 2010 in the UK, the iPhone 4 is in many ways the best iPhone so far... it's also the most expensive.
The iPhone 3G S was available free on an (already very expensive) £45 per month contract, you'll have to sign up to an eye-watering £60 per month 24-month contract to get the iPhone 4 16GB free, and to get the 32GB version you'll have to shell out an extra £60 on top! On the cheapest tariff available, you'll still end up paying more than £800 over two years ?
The desire's screen is 0.2 inches bigger than the iphone's - WOW, is actually more expensive, has a lower ppi, slower, and a rubbish battery life. I swapped it for the iphone4 and would do it again any day.
Well The HTC Desire is one of the most impressive phones out there tbh. Despite being significantly cheaper than the iPhone, it can match or beat everything that the iPhone does. It's an Android smartphone with a fabulously responsive touchscreen, the Desire packs in a huge choice of apps, brilliant web browsing, one of the biggest and best screens ever, a good camera, a music player and GPS too. You want more? Add in a superfast processor, monster battery, WiFi and a 3.5mm headphone jack and you've got the perfect phone... so I think that it will happen and soon too.
wont happen