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Random Analyst: Honeycomb was made “by the Geeks, for the Geeks and of the Geeks”

Kellen March 10, 2011 217

Industry tech analyst Trip Chowdhry is attempting to make a name for himself this week by publicly trashing on Honeycomb, the world's first real Android tablet operating system. From the sounds of it, Chowdhry received his review unit from Motorola and did...

Nielsen: Young Folks Sure Love Them Some Android Phones

Kellen March 3, 2011 31

At this point, it's no secret or surprise that Android is coming out on top of everyone's smartphone OS studies, but in Neilsen's latest, we get to see some interesting stats surrounding the age of those helping to make it the best. Everyone look around the...

Nielsen: Android, Blackberry and iPhone End 2010 Tied for Mobile Market Share

Kellen February 1, 2011 120

Talk about painting a vivid picture with a simple graph. At the end of 2010, Blackberry, Android and iOS all took up the exact same amount of the market for mobile operating systems. What's fascinating, is the fact that Android started the year at just 8%...

Nielsen: Android is Most Popular Phone OS Over Last 6 Months

Kellen October 5, 2010 26

More bragging rights for Team Android. Neilsen released statistics today showing that Android smartphone sales topped all others over the last 6 months. What's even more amazing is the fact that 32% of all smartphone phones acquired in August were phones...

Nielson: Android Jumps iPhone in Q2 Sales

Kellen August 2, 2010 71

With Android's approach of spreading their OS to as many phones as possible across as many carriers as possible, they have now jumped passed the i*hone in quarterly sales for the first time. Apparently selling over a million units during its opening weekend...

Numbers Don’t Lie, Android is Still Far from the Top

Matt Demers June 7, 2010 56

We were riding the crest of a wave. This wave started nearly a month ago, with the NPD group putting out a release that said Android had outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010. As Android users, we were happy. We were proud. Though Apple shrugged...