Android allegedly outsells iPhone in recent months (but may not have)

May 10, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

According to estimates of the NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track, Android was the second-best-selling mobile phone in the first quarter of 2010. Android snagged 26 percent of new phone sales from January-March, behind Blackberry’s 36 percent but ahead of iPhone’s 21 percent.

I put allegedly in the title because this is an estimate from an analyst group rather than cold sales number. NPD culls this data from 150,000 completed online consumer research surveys each month instead of actual sales figures, which have shown that iPhone is still a huge seller. It also doesn’t take into account corporate phone sales, which leaves a sizeable portion of the smartphone public out of the equation. We’ve seen Android usage patterns climb, but it’s not yet official that Android has outpaced the iPhone OS. I doubt it will for the foreseeable future, especially once the fourth-gen iPhone is released.

Still, it’s very encouraging that Android has come far enough for this even to be debated. Better phones in the pipeline and increased notoriety may make this official.

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One Comment

Bob said: On May 10, 2010

not that hard to figure. If you take AT&T report, they reported that 2.7 million IPhone were sold. Now if 2.7 million points to 21 percent, then 28 percent comes to 3.6 million. Now if you checked google financial report for 1st report, they said 60K devices per day. Now 60K * 90=5.4 million. 5. 4 million is a lot more than 3.6 million and Android was not really succesful in 2010 1st quarter overseas(it has changed now with xperia, desire and other phones which were released only in q2 2010). So it is not that hard to assume and besides NPD is very very reputed.

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