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Google's Android phone to capture 4 percent of market
The hype keeps getting hotter.
Just days ahead of T-Mobile USA's launch of the HTC Dream--the first phone that will run on Google's Android mobile software--a new study has predicted the phone will capture 4 percent of the smartphone market in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2008.
The study, by Strategy Analytics, said it expected T-Mobile to sell 400,000 Android-based units in the fourth quarter, and said the phone was coming into a crowded marketplace, already filled with Apple's iPhone 3G and Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices.
The Sept. 23 launch of the Dream is going to be one of the most highly anticipated events in the wireless world this fall, and Google already has high expectations for its success.
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Posted by Anonymous | September 19, 2008 - 1:58pm
You got to be kidding....what happened to some critical thinking?
Posted by Anonymous | September 19, 2008 - 4:21pm
There is much criticism about Android being spread and I think operators like AT&T are behind it, as Google will not agree to follow their likes and dislikes.
Android is still in beta until the release. They have to consider that if while criticizing.
Operators are minorities and users are majorities and when people start to appreciate the freedom they get with open source, operators will not have the control they are used to now.
And 4 percent is not that unbelievable!
Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2008 - 10:15am
So 4% of the US smartphone market and not 4% of the cellphone market as the headline implies; i.e. 400k units, vs approx 12m units.
You can't put a sub heading in saying the 'hype keeps getting hotter' and trying to suggest you are being analytical when this article and its headline is part of the hype.
Please, lets have some perspective.
