iPhone 4 Tops Phone Sales, Is Most Popular Phone

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iPhone 4 Tops Phone Sales, Is Most Popular Phone
by Thomas Houston

Chalk up yet another accolade for the iPhone 4. Though Apple's latest phone may have gotten off to a rocky start with the antennagate debacle, market research firm NPD is now reporting that the iPhone 4 is the best-selling device -- this includes both smartphones and feature phones -- in the U.S., according to Q1 numbers.

iPhone 4 sales, boosted by the February launch on Verizon, drove Apple to become the third most-popular phone manufacturer, coming in behind Samsung and LG. The top 5 are:

1. iPhone 4
2. iPhone 3GS
3. Motorola Droid X
4. HTC EVO 4G
5. HTC Droid Incredible

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[Tusan_Homichi]

I'm actually somewhat surprised that the Droid Incredible is still selling so well. The others on the list make sense.

 

[theogt]

The iPhone 3GS is the second most selling phone?

Good lord.

This is odd news:

Android still dominates on the OS side, though Google's mobile operating system lost marketshare for the first time since 2009 and Apple moved up 9 points to 28 percent. RIM had a rough quarter, losing 5 percent, which puts the BlackBerry OS on only 14 percent of smartphones.

 

[YosemiteSam]

It's a bit skewed due to there being basically one iPhone. (well, two if you include iPhone 3G)

Android phones are more popular than iPhones. Even Neilson has stated as much.

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Android is the most desired smartphone platform in the US

Smartphones running Google's open source Android platform are now more popular than those running Apple's iOS according to consumers in the US.

Thirty-one percent of Americans looking to buy a smartphone in January - March 2011 said they wanted a device running Android, up from 26 percent in July - September 2010.

The percentage of iPhone-wanting customers has dropped from 33 percent during the same period.

Things are looking down for Research In Motion (RIM) too. In 2010 13 percent of Americans said they wanted a BlackBerry while in 2011 that figure dropped to just 11 percent.

The number of people who are unsure about which operating system (OS) they should choose for their next (or first) smartphone has risen from 18 to 20 percent.

"Those dynamics are already translating into sales," said market researcher Nielsen in a study released on April 26.

"Half of those surveyed in March 2011 who indicated they had purchased a smartphone in the past six months said they had chosen an Android device. A quarter of recent acquirers said they bought an iPhone and 15 percent said they had picked a Blackberry phone."

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[theogt]

It's a bit skewed due to there being basically one iPhone. (well, two if you include iPhone 3G)

Android phones are more popular than iPhones. Even Neilson has stated as much.

And that's a bit skewed due to there being a gazillion different Android phones.