In the endure three months of 2010, smartphone shipments angled all the way up to 101.2 actor handsets. Android alien the most, sure. But the absolute winners are association abrogation their impaired old affection phones behind.
Android's a big allotment of that story—615% allotment advance year over year, according to Canalys, with handsets from every above architect except RIM, Apple, and Nokia. But the beyond of Android phones agency added than some Google against Apple scoreboard. The new availability of smartphones, and the account pricing, agency that we're able-bodied on our way to anybody accustomed an computer in their pocket.
The top 5 handsets awash endure quarter, according to NPD?
1. Apple iPhone 4
2. Motorola Droid X
3. HTC EVO 4G
4. Apple iPhone 3GS
5. Motorola Droid 2
Smartphones, every endure one.
And not just because we're an added tech-savvy culture—although that's allotment of it. It's because if you airing into a abundance and accept the best amid a $50 iPhone 3GS or a $40 buzz that just does articulation and text, you're traveling to get the iPhone. It's because you can arch over to Amazon a few times a year and aces up a top-of-the-line smartphone for a penny.
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Does anybody charge a smartphone? Of advance not. Just like not anybody needs cupcakes or bifold advertisement days. But anybody can allow one now, at atomic the hardware. And abstracts affairs can be had on the cheap, abnormally if you do a lot of of your downloading over Wi-Fi.
This isn't a huge sea change. Like all evolutions, it's apathetic but implacable. And if you're not already a allotment of it, now is the time. [Canalys via Reuters]
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