[iOqedeyH]

Apple fanboy comment funtime:

this study is so false! they are comparing the entire Android-based phone division to a single phone? Its funny how there is only one phone on the market with iPhone OS, but like 20 different types of Android phones?

this is so bogus. As an iPhone owner, I feel insulted.

Yeah, right.
Baloney.

Doesn't the title say it all... Android Phones (plural) outsell the Apple iPhone (singular)... No point in even reading the article - as I did not. Why doesn't Car and Driver say, "All GM cars outsell the Honda Accord."

An entirely different business model. With entirely different pros and cons. Because Droid is open source its apps store will never equal the iPhone's.

In other news, Firefox downloads outnumber Mac sales...

Who's more likely to answer a survey about Android cell phones? A geek who went out of his way to research and choose an Android phone or the average iPhone user? Obviously, the former.
(Note that it was a survey about 'which cell phone do you use', not 'do you use android'...

[Unhappu]

Except it's true Asher

iPhone being on one carrier explains this all away. Let me put this in terms you can understand: A gay condom manufacturer sells magnum penis condoms in one small gay market, like Toronto. They sell 5,000,000 of them. Then a straight condom manufacturer sells small penis condoms in Canada, medium size penis condoms in India, and big penis condoms in America, and yet only sells a total of 6,000,000 of them.

This clearly is a sign that the former one has more potential, should it expand its business, so to speak

[mymnarorump]

Seeing as Apple has eclipsed Google in market value, I'd say the exclusivity is helping them

People are confused by too many options. I like buying one thing and knowing it's the most popular thing and few others can have it.

[Mr Andrews]

I don't see why Apple should be taking cues from a less valuable search engine company whose only attempt at a phone is a complete embarrassment. People are buying up more Android phones because there's more of them. Google sees less profit.

This is what talking to you feels like right now.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-RSS&ATTR=News

[LasTins]

It's spelled isle you retard

[UnmariKam]

It's spelled isle you retard

No, it's SPELT AISLE you mermaid.

SPELL CHECKER, ISLAY Wiglaf please.

[vipBrooriErok]

The supermarket is a metaphor for life, you uncultured American swine.

[Indessasp]

I think it's established by studies that I'd feel less content with my iPhone and $120/month plan if everyone else had one, so I don't see why your anger is directed at me and not the field of psychiatry. Those who don't have iPhones want one. And that is why Apple shareholders like myself will continue to bleed money like Leona Lewis bleeds love until Steve Jobs' colon gives out.

Note that by bleeding money, I mean we have a lot of it, not that we are losing it. Thanks.

[khjhkfggt]

Hi, I'm Wiglaf, and I can't bear to think that other people enjoy a competing product more than the product I purchased. God forbid I own something solely because I enjoy it and not because everyone else also does.

[GotActichwicy]

Does that mean that you use your iPhone as an anal vibrator Wiggy?

[Jourgenz]

I thought Wiglaf was Ashers' DL?

Yes. Asher's bored.

[rozalinasi]

Hi, I'm Wiglaf, and I can't bear to think that other people enjoy a competing product more than the product I purchased. God forbid I own something solely because I enjoy it and not because everyone else also does.

Wiglaf is way more entertaining than you are.

[DeedPatmeda]

Wiggy is funnier than you are.

[HassFks]

I hadn't even heard of Android before I read the article in the newspaper. I'm guessing that, sadly, across the pond it's still apple calling the shots...

[HQTheodore]

I have heard of android and I live in Argentina.

Living in Western Europe and not having heard of android speaks bad about you.

[feroiodpiop]

Android 2.2 is being announced.

They're activating 100,000 Android devices a day right now, a rate that's increasing rapidly.

50,000 apps, also increasing rapidly.

New features announced so far:
- Browser in 2.2 is 2-3x faster than 2.1 in Javascript.
- All Android phones can now be mobile WiFi hotspots. Uses your data plan, phone acts like a wireless router.
- Supports JIT (just in time) compiling for apps now. Should be significantly faster as the code is just compiled once, not interpreted in realtime.
- Better support for MS Exchange
- Bunch of cool developer features no one else here cares about

[pertikuss]

- Google Maps tilts in the Android browser based on compass.

- Demo: Google Voice Search. It’s gotten better (a lot more). Long queries like “Barack Obama at the G8 Summit” works like a charm — at least in the demo.

- Voice triggers: Saying “call” and a contact triggers the call.

- The microphone is in the browser. They’re showing it off in Google Translate, where “Can you help me find the nearest hospital” is not only translated, but it’s repeated via voice to others.

Flash, Marketplace, and More
- Flash for Android: “Being open means you’re inclusive, not exclusive.”

- Google Vic Gundrota’s railing into Apple for not playing Flash, telling a story about how his daughter couldn’t go to her favorite website (Nickelodeon) on an iPad and asked for an Android phone.

- First demonstration of apps: new widget for searching for Android, it has improved.

- There is now search within app data. You can search within the Mint Android app, for example.

- Android apps finally support installation on SD Card. If there is no space on your phone, it’ll automatically place the app onto your SD card.

- One-step updating of apps announced. Much easier to update.

- You can now report applications and developers can use that information to build better and more reliable apps. Google’s also giving access to a ton of information, such as the stack trace, so they can understand what’s going on with their apps.

- Sneak Peek of Android marketplace: Android Marketplace on the web! Finally, an Android marketplace online that doesn’t suck.

- Demo: they’re sending applications from the web directly to an android phone, no action on the phone required.

- Android Froyo can bring your entire home music library to your phone as a stream. So yes, all of your iTunes songs can be streamed onto your Android phone, so long as you have an Internet connection.

[pharmaclid]

I assume very soon as there's no carrier roadblocks, but it hasn't been said.

[mXr8icOB]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/um-...ompetitor-yep/

Google quietly launches web-based iTunes competitor. Best part is when you buy songs on it, it automatically sends the song over the air to the Android. No more damn syncing!

[CreativeSuiteDown]

I'm glad we're getting some cool new handsets but there is still the major problem of lack of competition in the carrier market. Even the US government refuses to say the wireless provider market is competitive. There has just been so much consolidation during the Bush years that most of the competition is now gone.

U.S. fails to describe wireless industry as competitive

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission for the first time since 2002 did not describe the wireless industry as having "effective competition," a situation one senior regulator blamed on consolidation.

Technology

The key omission was in an annual report on the state of competition in the wireless industry. The FCC on Thursday released the report, which covers 2008 and a portion of 2009.

The last time the FCC did not describe the industry as having "effective competition" was in a report released in 2002.

The lack of the key phrase could set the stage for U.S. regulators to impose policies and regulations to increase competition for consumers who are demanding more data plans on their mobile handsets to surf the Internet and watch videos.

It also could help shape the terms of the next set of major auctions on spectrum for a wireless industry largely dominated by AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp and Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile unit. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc.

Sprint and T-Mobile are seeking more airwaves, also called spectrum, to better compete against AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Robert Quinn, AT&T senior vice president of federal regulatory policy, said the FCC's decision was a dramatic break from years of solid precedent.

"We can't help but worry that this seems intended to justify more regulation in a market where it is clear beyond doubt that regulation is simply unwarranted," Quinn said.

After the open meeting, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told reporters that the facts and data in the report will help the agency make "the right decisions" on upcoming issues.

"In some cases that will be to do absolutely nothing," he said. "In some cases it will be to take smart actions to spur competition."

CONSOLIDATION EFFECT

His colleague, Michael Copps, one of three Democrats on the five-member panel, however, was more critical of some of the findings, calling them sobering and worrying.

"Specifically, the report confirms something I have been warning about for years -- that competition has been dramatically eroded and is seriously endangered by continuing consolidation and concentration in our wireless markets," Copps said.

"We are going to need an extra dose of vigilance going forward and use whatever policy levers we have available to ensure good outcomes for American consumers," he said.

All five FCC commissioners voted in support of the report, but the two Republicans expressed disagreement with some of the findings.

"I believe we actually should have made an affirmative finding of a competitive market," Republican FCC member Meredith Attwell Baker said.

The industry has seen an explosive demand from consumers who increasingly surf the Web on mobile devices, especially smartphones. Demand is increasing faster for data than for voice services.

In August, the FCC began an inquiry into competition in the wireless industry. Under recommendations made in the National Broadband Plan, the agency is considering ways to provide more airwaves to wireless companies to meet a growing demand for mobile devices.

Chris Riley, a policy counsel at public interest group Free Press, praised the FCC for omitting the key phrase, but said the agency should have gone further.

"The market is largely controlled by two companies (AT&T and Verizon), and it will not dig itself out of this mess and magically produce competition," Riley said. "Oversight and reform are badly needed."

Verizon executive Kathleen Grillo said in a statement, "The U.S. has the most intensely competitive wireless market on the planet...Prices keep falling and usage keeps rising."

(Reporting by John Poirier; editing by John Wallace, Lisa Von Ahn and Leslie Gevirtz) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64J4P820100520