Android market share to grow 900% in 2009
Android market share is prognosed to grow somewhat mighty 900% in 2009 compared to its debuted year — 2008. The platform is definitely still receiving a lot of interest and attention both among the consumers and developers, but with only one headset on the market it tool about 6 month to reach 1 million units sold landmark.
Analytic companies project 900% growth and this is partly conditioned on many more devices to become available in the second part of 2009. T-Mobile has recently leaked some plans on releasing at least 3 devices. The G1 will be pretty much ending its market life span somewhere around back to school time in the end of August and will be replaced by the G2, which already is confusing everyone around with all the nicknames (Sapphire, myTouch etc…). The G2 is rumored to be priced at $179 with the plan.
Even more interest however is drawn to Samsung with its rumored Houdini and HTC Hero – another Android headset, scheduled to come out of HTC labs somewhere by third quarter of 2009.
All in all — there should be many interesting headsets coming out this year that might greatly contribute to popularity of Android headset which eventually will materialize in units sold numbers.
iPhone will definitely steal some heat from Android with 3.0 OS this year and debut of the new Palm Pre phone, which already announced early access to its SDK. And RIM will probably unveil a new phone close to BlackBerry developers conference in early November.
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