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[masta247]

Reports: Nearly Twice As Many Androids Shipped Last Quarter As iPhones

That's for America. Looks like Android is taking over while Apple is fighting head to head with RIM.
Unfortunately, in Europe there are still 10 Nokia Symbian phones sold for every Android Device and 0.8 Iphone but that trend is slowly changing in Android's favor. Certainly it created a brand for itself here. For some reason most people are still after Nokias though.

 

[S O F I]

Most non-Western European countries aren't going for Android smartphones because the infrastructure and favorable phone plans for them simply do not exist. You have to pay out the ass for Internet on the phone in the Balkans.

 

[dilla]

I use 2 GB of data a month. I dunno how. I do light browsing. It must be the weather and Google Reader syncs that happen daily. That's still a lot.

Glad I have unlimited. I was reminded that $15 got me 150 MB. I thought about it and then checked my usage details on VZW's app. Almost 2 GB. Billing cycle is over in a week. I bet they hate me.

 

[Pittsey]

I use torrents. All my shows RSS'd and no speed issues. Anyways, back to android.

The issue is security for me. Just saying. I'd rather cover my bases as I downloaded 200 gig this week alone. I downloaded The Wonders of The Solar System in HD.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Android biggest OS in US claim analysts | Android Community

and for those of you in the uk who are interested in the galaxy tab:

Vodafone and Orange confirm Samsung Galaxy Tab pricing | Android Community

Galaxy Tab on sale in UK along with Samsung’s accessories | Android Community

Samsung Galaxy Tab costs $205 to build | Android Community

Galaxy Tab gets video dissection | Android Community

 

[THEV1LL4N]

this goes back to the casey rant vs smacky:

Android 2.x on 77% of devices claim Android Market stats | Android Community


Security analysts claim Android kernel has security holes | Android Community

ScatterTunes promises first fully integrated music app for Android | Android Community

Dell CEO praises Windows Phone 7 development ease over Android | Android Community

 

[THEV1LL4N]

the 2.1 % will roll over to 2.2 and 1.6 will soon roll over to the 2.1 share.

The HTC Magic has updated to 2.1 Eclair. Wait until the SE Xperia X10 & X8 devices update to Eclair, then the overall percentage of 2.x will be even higher. In all honesty though, SE devices should at this moment in time be looking at updating to FroYo, not Eclair. This is where they fall short behind other deivices. most people dont even realise what version of android they are running though, so they dont realise the better functions they can have.

 

[masta247]

Most non-Western European countries aren't going for Android smartphones because the infrastructure and favorable phone plans for them simply do not exist. You have to pay out the ass for Internet on the phone in the Balkans.

Same here but even with very limited data plans Android is a better OS than Symbian which sells very well. Phone plans here just limit the experience - for example I'd have to settle with 10mb/month lol. Fortunately I have wifi wherever I go.
However the main point is, that Nokia is considered to be the best brand around here and Symbian is still much more popular than Android.

 

[dilla]

Same here but even with very limited data plans Android is a better OS than Symbian which sells very well. Phone plans here just limit the experience - for example I'd have to settle with 10mb/month lol. Fortunately I have wifi wherever I go.
However the main point is, that Nokia is considered to be the best brand around here and Symbian is still much more popular than Android.

Symbian got a good foothold in the market in Europe. It wasn't the first smartphone, but maybe the one that got the most attention there? Similar to what RIM was for a short bit and quickly taken over by iOS here in the States.

I don't think I've seen a Symbian phone in the States. One guy I know has had two Nokias in the past three years and that may have been Symbian since they were smartphones. But other than that, no one.

 

[masta247]

Yeah, Symbian here is what RIM was in the States and vice versa, because I've never seen a Blackberry device here.
However still Symbian Nokias sell very well. Most smartphones I see daily are Nokias. I had 2 Nokias with Symbian back in the days and I liked them but obviously Symbian didn't stand a chance against Android.
Maybe Symbian^3 will change things (and definitely help Nokia with defending their market share).
Nokia phones are good but overpriced and with strange tech specs too. To be fair I never understood why they were never popular in the States and why they were so popular here.
They are above average in my book. About the same league as Motorola or Sony Ericsson, but went different way.

 

[Pittsey]

I don't know anyone who has a Nokia phone anymore. 10 years ago everyone did.

 

[dilla]

Nokias were all the rage my freshman year in high school in 2003. Everyone that got a new phone had a Nokia feature phone.

 

[Casey]

My first smartphone was a Nokia device running Symbian - the Nokia 3650. Before that I just had featurephones. This was back in 2004 and I had it until 2006.

 

[Flipmo]

My first cell was an Audiovox. It has snakes on it - it was ahead of its time because of that.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

oh that ugly phone, i thought id never see that one again.

i borrowed the Nokia 7610 which was pretty cool at the time.

I remember that before that I wanted this one below, but i forgot what its called:

edit: it was the Nokia 6620:

also, this one was going for £30 pay as you go and everyone was getting them:

 

[Casey]

I don't remember the make and model of my first cell. I know it was on Orange's network sometime in 1999. I remember getting this one in 2001 though, this was my second phone and I had it for like 3 years LOL.

Nokia 5110:

Sandeep, I had the 6620 also. Same color as the pic you posted.

What happened was, the day before I was due to fly out to LA for the Tupac documentary - I dropped my 3650 in the shower (don't ask). First and only time I've broken a phone. Obviously I needed a phone quick, so I ran out to CEX in Birmingham city centre and bought a used 6620 for about £60 if i recall.

I used it for about 4 months after that and then got a Sidekick 3.

Followed a year later by a Sidekick Slide:

and then a year later, the G1.

 

[Flipmo]

A bit of a side note...

*Waits for Casey to enter the room and smash the table with an electric guitar*

 

[ARon]

^Microsoft showed something similar to that off over a year ago and it was amazing

 

[Casey]

So I'm flashing my G1 back to CM5.

CM6 is still fairly sluggish for me. Plus, even with utilizing the FroYo Apps2SD method, it still doesn't solve the problem because the Dalvik Cache is still on the internal memory. So even with less than half of the apps I had installed on CM5, I'm still getting the "Low On Memory" alert all the time.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

yea 6.1 is very slow for me and the overclock widget fails to appear.