There has been NO android phone that has had the success of the iPhone.
[h1]Report: Motorola Droid Hits One Million Faster Than iPhone[/h1]
NewsPosted by
Keith Andrew, March 17th, 2010
The ever-hot
battle between the iPhone and Android took another unexpected turn this week, with analytics firm
Flurry revealing it believes Motorola's Droid handset sold its first one million units quicker than the iPhone.
The news actually arose out of a study the firm put together to look at the (relatively dire) performance of Google's Nexus One. Flurry uses its own data (apps embedded with the firm's software have been downloaded to more than 80 percent of all iPhone and Android handsets) to work out each phone's user base after 74 days. 74 days is the amount of time it took Apple to sell its first one million units.
As a result, Flurry's conclusion that Google has only managed to shift 135,000 Nexus Ones in the same amount of time is hardly good news for the Internet giant. However, what will calm its nerves is the revelation that Motorola's Droid handset actually managed to shift more than a million handsets within its first 74 days on sale.
1.05 million units, to be precise, narrowly putting the most popular Android model ahead of the iPhone by that metric. It's a claim that has been met with industry-wide surprise, although, as Flurry points out, it's not actually as unexpected as we might think.
"Motorola Droid launched over 2.5 years after the iPhone 1G. When the iPhone launched, consumers' concept of a mobile computing device as we now understand it, was very different," Flurry states on its blog.
"Since then, Apple has spent millions of dollars training and educating consumers about capabilities of such a device, which was no small feat especially after its first foray into the handset business. Until the iPhone was introduced, most consumers, especially in the U.S. had thought of their phones as, well, just phones."
Flurry concludes that the fact that Droid launched in the midst of the holidays also gave the platform a big boost, a benefit both iPhone and Nexus One missed out on.
http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/report-motorola-droid-hits-one-million-faster-than-iphone
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