Google Android??What this is??

In July 2005, Google acquired Android, a startup based in Palo Alto Small, CA. Android co-founders who went to work at Google included Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire), Nick Sears (once Vice President at T-Mobile), and Chris White (the One of the first engineers at WebTV). At the time, little was known about the functions of Android other than they made software for mobile phones. This began rumors that Google was planning to enter the market of mobile telephony, but it was not clear at what function they could play in this market.

At Google, the team led by Rubin, has developed a Linux-based mobile OS which they were responsible for marketing the handset and the carriers on the principle of providing a flexible and scalable. It was reported that Google had already lined up a series of hardware and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to varying degrees of cooperation from them.

In November 2007, Google announced the introduction of the Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance, a group of hardware, software and telecommunications companies that agreed to participate in the development and distribution platform as Android. Read more...

eMarketer: Apple Will Soon Lead The US Smartphone Market by Robin Wauters

According to eMarketer, Apple is moving Research In Motion as a market leader in smartphones United States this year, only to be surpassed in 2012 by Android.eMarketer, which bases its estimates on an analysis of estimates of research and methodologies of several companies that control the smartphone market, estimates Apple has taken a 28% share of U.S. smartphone users in 2010, just over 24% of users using a device running Android.

RIM's share market is expected to decline to 25% in 2011, down 30% in 2010.

eMarketer predicts that the Android platform Google will continue to gain share through 2012, with 31% of all smartphone users with a handset running Android (against 6% in 2009).

In the meantime, the market share Apple would clock out at 30%, up slightly from 2009.

In the words of Noah Elkin, eMarketer senior analyst and author of a forthcoming report on mobile devices:

"With a growing list of manufacturing partners and support in all major markets and market segments, scale for Android is fast in terms of device market share, applications and advertising revenues.

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