Android O/S continues to gain traction

Android O/S continues to gain traction

Recent reports from Nielson, Canalysis and Comscore provide terrific insight into Android's market penetration which is mostly at the expense of RIM's Blackberry O/S and Nokia's Symbian O/S. 

At this point it appears to be a two horse race between Google and Apple. 

Android is number 1 in Smartphone O/S during Q2 2011. Nielsen reported that

55% of all new mobile-phone sales in the U.S. from March through May were

Smartphones, for the first time Smartphones outsold feature phones. Nielsen reported 38% of all phones in use in the US were  Smartphones versus 34% in the prior period/year.

Google’s Android O/S  is responsible for the majority of that growth.  Thirty-eight percent

of new U.S. Smartphone buyers purchased an Android handset during the three month

period.  Android's growth trajectory should continue along the same lines as the O/S matures and evolves.  We learned at Google I/O that the next big release in Q4 2011 will be Ice Cream Sandwich which will be an advanced version of the O/S that combines some of the advances in Honeycomb tablet version that can run on either a phone or a tablet.  That will certainly be helpful to LifeSignals as we see more interest and traction in the Health Care space on the new tablet devices.