Android passes BlackBerry in US smartphone survey

Release Date 10 May, 2011 in Computerworld

	Android now dominates US smartphone market. (Don't ask about RIM.) Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Shaer - 10 May, 2011 Android is the most popular operating system in the country. Can RIM and Apple catch up? Android phones currently dominate the US market. BlackBerry handsets, meanwhile, are in a state of decline. Here, a user holds a phone running the Android OS. ...
Latest smartphone market share numbers: Apple is flat, Google going strong ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 10 May, 2011 Mobile analytics firm comScore has released the latest quarterly numbers for smartphones, and there are some telling changes that reflect the mobile space. Android keeps growing while others remain flat. ...
Canaccord, citing soft sales, slashes price target on RIM Globe and Mail - 10 May, 2011 Research In Motion Ltd. RIMM-Q has been taking a drubbing from analysts since its earnings warning in late April (Last Thursday, National Bank downgraded the stock for the second time in a week). Canaccord Genuity, which conducts regular checks into ...
Android passes RIM in US as leading mobile OS CNET (blog) - Lance Whitney - 10 May, 2011 Android continued its dominance of the smartphone landscape by shooting past BlackBerry maker RIM as the leading smartphone OS in the US, according to new data from ComScore. Tracking the first quarter of 2011, ComScore ranked ...
Android, Apple iOS Chip Away at RIM's Smartphone Share PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 10 May, 2011 Google and Apple continued to chip away at Research in Motion's smartphone mobile OS share in the US, with Google's Android jumping past RIM's BlackBerry to nab the number-one spot, and Apple inching closer to land at number three. ...
Android passes BlackBerry in US smartphone survey Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - 10 May, 2011 Computerworld - Google's Android was the top smartphone operating system in the US in the first quarter of 2011, overtaking the market share of Research In Motion's BlackBerry and keeping Apple's iPhone in the third position, ...
	Buying into the reinvention of RIM Globe and Mail - 10 May, 2011 I have just doubled my position in Research in Motion Ltd. RIM-T stock after being a shareholder for more than 10 years. Last week, I flew to Orlando to attend RIM's BlackBerry World conference along with 6000 others. I wrote an article here outlining ...
Things That BlackBerry Got Right Techtree.com - Prasad Naik - 10 May, 2011 BlackBerry as a brand is slowly fading away. It is losing to the likes of iOS and Android, not just in terms of market share, but mind share as well. Unless RIM makes some dramatic changes in the product line, it will soon be dead. ...
Speech recognition: the iOS achilles heel ZDNet (blog) - Jason D. O'Grady - 10 May, 2011 By Jason D. O'Grady \| May 9, 2011, 12:01am PDT Android dominates the iOS/iPhone in terms of speech recognition and it has from the very beginning. Simply put, Android has it and iOS doesn't. Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers ...
Android stamps its authority on smartphone world New Zealand Herald - ‎May 8, 2011‎ Samsung's large selection of Android devices has helped it become the top smartphone manufacturer in the US. Photo / Supplied Smartphones powered by Google software widened their lead on BlackBerry handsets in the US market during the first three ...
	BlackBerry's big moment Times LIVE - Toby Shapshak - ‎May 8, 2011‎ Toby Shapshak: Is BlackBerry in rude health or in the place Nokia was three years ago, brimming with confidence but headed for a fall? It's a question I've spent the past week asking myself. I am particularly fond of BlackBerries and the Canadian ...
RIM and Microsoft: Dance of the Zombies PCWorld - Bill Snyder - ‎May 8, 2011‎ Microsoft plus Research in Motion equals what? Not much. The alliance of the two losers in the mobile computing race reeks of desperation and leaves me with an overwhelming sense of "so what?" Microsoft will likely gain some ...
Android Continues to Win at Blackberry's Expense PCWorld - Keir Thomas - ‎May 7, 2011‎ More bad news for RIM's Blackberry: A recent survey of cell phone users shows Google's Android is continuing to gobble up its market share. In online forums, consumers cite Android's superior user experience, ...
6 things you didn't know your phone can do Times of India - ‎May 7, 2011‎ Out of the box, smartphones come with a lot of nifty features. But, being the tiny computers that they are, they also come with tremendous untapped potential. To get the most out of your smartphone - whether it's a BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, ...
Google Android tops smartphone platform market in US: research Xinhua - ‎May 6, 2011‎ SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (Xinhua)-- Latest research released Friday shows that Google Android has become the No.1 smartphone platform in the United States in the first quarter as more smartphone manufacturers have adopted the operating system. ...
	Android smartphones widen lead in US market AFP - ‎May 6, 2011‎ SAN FRANCISCO �" Smartphones powered by Google software widened their lead on BlackBerry handsets in the US market during the first three months of the year, industry tracker comScore reported on Friday. Android smartphones dethroned BlackBerry in ...
RIM's market share plummets as users opt for Android over BlackBerry National Post (registration) - Christine Dobby - ‎May 6, 2011‎ As further proof Research in Motion Ltd. risks ceding its perch at the top of the smartphone market, the Canadian company lost more than a third of its US subscriber market share in just over a year. In February 2010, the Waterloo, Ont.-based commanded ...
Google's Android Moves Past BlackBerry Wall Street Journal - Steven Russolillo - ‎May 6, 2011‎ Google Inc.'s Android operating system overtook Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry as the top smartphone platform in the first quarter, according to research firm comScore Inc. Google gained six percentage points to capture ...
OS Wars \| Keeping up with the trend in a changing mobile market TopTenREVIEWS - ‎May 5, 2011‎ With so many mobile operating systems out there; Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, Android, iOS, Linux, and more, we have a tough choice when looking to buy a mobile device. Which OS will end up in your pocket?
Westpac enables mobile banking on Android and Blackberry Computerworld Australia - 10 May, 2011 Westpac has stepped up its mobile banking capabilities, enabling customers with Blackberry and Android-based smartphones to access its banking services. According to the bank customers with devices running Android 2.2+ and BlackBerry 6+ phone operating ...
	As smartphone market booms, Android leaps over BlackBerry in US ConnectedPlanet (blog) - Kevin Fitchard - 10 May, 2011 While Android devices surpassed Research in Motion's BlackBerry some time ago in new smartphone sales, RIM had one thing going for it: a huge installed base of BlackBerry users dating back to the time it dominated the US ...
	Android Dethrones Blackberry as Top Smartphone Platform in First Quarter Business 2 Community - 10 May, 2011 Google Inc's Android operating system has dethroned Research in Motion Ltd.'s Blackberry operating system as the top smartphone platform in the first quarter, according to the research firm comScore Inc. As reported by ComputerWorld, the comScore ...
Android Nabs Third Of Smartphone Market, BlackBerry Plummets [REPORT] Mashable - Stan Schroeder - 10 May, 2011 Google's Android now holds more than a third of the US smartphone market share, eclipsing both RIM's BlackBerry OS and Apple's iOS with a growing lead, comScore reports. Measuring more than 30000 US mobile subscribers through its MobiLens service from ...
RIM Tanks, Android Rises And iPhone Reigns Supreme In U.S. Smartphone Market Cult of Mac - John Brownlee - 10 May, 2011 See that green line? That's Blackberry-maker Research in Motion, tanking hard and giving up the position of biggest US Smartphone platform to Android. Meanwhile, guess which Cupertino-based company has ...
Android Passes RIM To Lead US Smartphone Market NewsFactor Network - Barry Levine - 10 May, 2011 New smartphone owners in the US appear to be choosing devices with Google's Android operating system, pushing it past Research In Motion to lead the market. Just three months ago, RIM's BlackBerry was ahead of Android. ...
	Google Android overtakes BlackBerry in operating system market share Ubergizmo - Edwin Kee - 10 May, 2011 Research In Motion (RIM)'s smartphone mobile OS market share in the US has received yet another blow �" as Google has puffed and hacked its way past. As for Apple, they are inching nearer and nearer to land at the ...
	BlackBerry's Pain Is Android's Gain Mobiledia - Peter Ferenczi - 10 May, 2011 Google's Android took enough US marketshare from Research in Motion's BlackBerry software to become the top smartphone platform. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company's Android handsets made up an average ...
20 Android Games Worth Playing, 2nd Ed. Tom's Guide - 10 May, 2011 By Rico Mossesgeld 12:40 PM - May 9, 2011 Reports indicate that the Android app market is growing faster than its iOS counterpart. Now's a great time to invest in an Android smartphone or tablet, with over 150000 apps available as of February 2011. ...
	Android and iPhone continue to erode Blackberry sales TECH.BLORGE.com - Michael W. Jones - 10 May, 2011 The original modern smartphone (that would be the iPhone) and the army of look-alikes (that would be Android) continue to eat away at the sales of RIM Blackberry phones. Where will it end? RIM is the victim of the Better Mousetrap ...
Android Blasts iPhone, BlackBerry in Market Share Vision 2 Mobile - 10 May, 2011 Android, Google's operating system for smartphones, continues to gain market share in the United States. Android now ranks as the No. 1 smartphone platform with 34.7 percent market share, according to a study conducted by comScore. ...