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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2011
Comscore has released their numbers for the period ending May 2011, and it's no surprise that Samsung and Android still lead the pack. According to Comscore, smartphone adoption in the US has cl...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2011
Another day, another chart showing Android's spectacular growth. What you see above is Gartner's numbers for the first quarter of 2011. And in those three months, some 36.2 million Android device...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 04, 2011
Android is already confirmed as the leading smartphone OS in Europe as a whole, and now it's stolen iOS's crown in the UK, according to a study carried out for Intelligent Environments, a ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2011
If there was any doubt that 2010 was the year of Android, then the latest set of European smartphone shipment data compiled by analysis firm IDC should pretty much seal the deal. According to ID...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 03, 2011
New demographics coming from The Nielsen Company today show some pretty interesting statistics. While the topic of market share still shows Apple leading the pack with 28.6 percent, Android is not t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2010
Seems like everywhere you visit on the Internet you see folks tossing out buzzwords like market share, or talking about how many phones are being activated for each of the popular operating systems.&n...
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by Kyle Gibb
Oct 07, 2010
Do you like huge Android sales figures and pretty graphs? Neilsen has the prefect gift for you: fresh evidence of Android's continued rise to dominance in the U.S. smartphone market. The OS is ...
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by Kyle Gibb
Oct 01, 2010
These last few months have seen nearly exponential growth for Android as a platform, and we have seen the numbers to prove it. Now, new data has come out from InvestorPlace that shows Android is...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 12, 2010
Gartner's Q2 2010 numbers are in, and the chart above says it all. So do these. And these. And these, you get the point -- Android is showing unprecedented growth, all thanks to peop...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 23, 2010
AOL, an Internet and media giant if there ever was one, has released a duo of Android applications. While it may be trendy and fun to bash AOL, the fact is that it helped usher in the Internet a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 09, 2010
The Comscore results for May 2010 are in, and it comes as no surprise that Android is still skyrocketing towards the top spot in US smartphone market share. While ALL other platforms show a loss...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Android remains the No. 2 smartphone operating system worldwide AdMob -- the company that serves up a good many of the ads you see in mobile applications (about 23,000) and that was bought by Google ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 18, 2009
AdMob, a company that serves up ads for mobile devices, has released its November numbers. And things continue to look up for Android since October, as you can see from the chart above. Some interesti...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 24, 2009
AdMob just released some statistics detailing the mobile web space detailing usage, device market share, and other data that shines a rather flattering light on the Android platform. Considering...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 25, 2009
Amazingly (or predictably?), Android has already made its mark on the mobile market. In only a few months time, Android has managed to build up 5% of the US smartphone web traffic.This could be ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 09, 2009
Whoa. Can this be true? According to T-Mobile UK's latest financial numbers, it looks like the T-Mobile G1 accounts for nearly 20% of T-Mobile UK contract sales. According to T-Mobile UK, the T-Mob...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 16, 2009
NVIDIA's Tegra is something that got kind of swept under the radar here at Android Central. We weren't too familiar with the details of this ridiculously powerful "mobile computer on a chip" becaus...
