However, Android is not conjunction in find its the market share increase deadlock: by Nielsen, or Apple or RIM is create any advances growing their share of the smartphone market, either: Apple holding steady at 26 percent, while RIM is hovering right about 22 percent. However, all companies can expect to see sales growth: even if their share of the smartphone market is not changed in recent years, the smartphone market continues to grow in the United States, with Nielsen's estimate some 37 percent of U.S. mobile users devices now carry a smartphone.
Nielsen’s data, based on an analysis of some 65,000 cell phone bills, shows other distinctions between iOS and Android users: while Apple users tend to download (and pay for) more mobile applications than Android users, Android users consume an average of 582MB of data a month, compared to an average of 492 MB for iOS users.
Proportions of heavy data use activities are largely the same across both platforms: app downloads are the single biggest consumer of data service (74 percent and 79 percent for Android and iOS, respectively) with streaming music or mobile radio coming in a distant second with 43 and 46 percent, respectively).
Industry viewers guessing that Android's market share increase May to have made plain, and that only a big riot in the mobile market will produce significant progress. Apple is gearing up for the IOS and 5.0 (according to some reports) 4 refreshed version of the iPhone, Google's Android Amping up for improved tablet experience. Other possible shift could come from failure-RIM has increasingly come under attack to recapture market share smartphone, and Nokia says it is increasingly confident that it will launch its first Windows Phones by year's end.