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Android OS most popular among US smartphone buyers

According to Nielsen, Android is the most popular OS among smartphone buyers since the beginning of 2010. Caveat: this applies to the US.

In their words: “among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a statistical dead heat for second place among recent acquirers.”

The stats for the overall smartphone OS usage you can find below. The Android OS keeps on going up.

Top 3 Operating System market share - smartphone owners, Jan '10 - Aug '10

Fri Mar 19

Videos may be spreading FUD but this one make me think (again) about how of much my data should I give out to Google by using their services.

Has Google reached the point where they are too big like Microsoft used to be in 1990s?

[via Hungry Beast and TechCrunch]

Mon Sep 7

Something for my Serbian and ex-Yugoslav readers - Rambo Amadeus strikes back!

In this new video and the latest hit “Urbano, samo urbano” Rambo’s casual style dissects the nation’s mindset and lays some nice rhymes on top of relaxed jazzy tune.

via RamboAmadeusSMC)

Mon Dec 15

Is Google Bringing Ringtones, Wallpaper To Android Market?

Here’s how market trends can also be analyzed and extrapolated - with a simple unzipping of a file.

The article over at Phandroid explains how traces of ringtones and wallpaper market for Google Android mobile phones (there’s more than one already) have been discovered.

Why is this important? Well, selling ringtone and wallpaper is still the most lucrative market as far as the mobile phones are concerned. Mobile ads and mobile social networking have yet to be figured out and monetized.