Android’s rapid growth began in the second half of 2009 and the Android mobile has now gained a larger market share than the iPhone in the U.S. market. It is estimated that Android will soon also be released Research in Motion, which is behind the popular BlackBerry models.
According to figures from research firm NPD Group is Android phones from different manufacturers across 28 percent of smartphones sold in the first quarter of the U.S. market.
That brings Android into a second place behind BlackBerry models, which accounted for 36 percent of sales. Apple‘s iPhone accounted for 21 percent of smartphones sold, and thus ends up in third place.
Both Apple and Research in Motion broadly retained their market share from the fourth quarter of 2009.
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