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On Monday, the Nielsen Company released a study showing that Android-based phones are,
for the first time, more popular than the iPhone.
According to Nielsen, in 2010 Android-based phones accounted for 27 percent of the overall
smartphone sales in the United States compared to iPhone sales that only accounted for 23
percent.
However, while Android handsets are the hottest selling, the report also indicated that owners
are the not the most satisfied. 71 percent of Android customers are likely to keep their
handset but around 20 percent say they'd like to switch to an iPhone. This falls in contrast
to 89 percent of iPhone customers recording as satisfied and only 6 percent considering
switching to Android.
But these numbers don't include the month of July, which leaves out iPhone 4 and the
possibility of negative feelings towards Apple over the iPhone 4's antenna issues. July sales
for Motorola's backordered DroidX were also absent.
RIM's Blackberry is still the king of smartphones, accounting for one third of all owners, but
less than half of Blackberry owners say they plan on purchasing another Blackberry device.
With reporting by Emily Price at PC World, I'm Justin Meisinger, IDG News Service.