As an important part of Google's enterprise strategy, Android mobile phones will further promote the enterprise's goal of "providing information to everyone anytime, anywhere. We found that many mobile phone users around the world have never used any Android-based phone.
Google's goal is to make mobile communications independent of devices or even platforms. For this purpose, Android will supplement and will not replace Google's long-standing mobile development strategy: by partnering with mobile phone manufacturers and mobile operators around the world, develop useful and attractive mobile services and promote these products.
The Establishment of The Open Mobile Alliance and the launch of Android are significant changes to the status quo. It requires a lot of patience and high investment before it brings initial benefits. However, we believe that the potential benefits of global mobile users are worth these efforts.
If you are a developer and interested in our ideas, please give us another week and Google will be able to provide the SDK. If you are a mobile user, just wait a while. Some of our partners plan to launch the Android-based phone product in the second half of 2008.
If you already have a phone number that you know and love, log on to mobile.google.com to make sure that you have installed Google mobile map, Gmail, and other exciting apps for your mobile phone. Google will continue to make these services better and add more attractive features, applications and services.
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The Institute also investigates users' plans to buy smartphones in the future. 21% of respondents who plan to purchase smartphones in the next 90 days said they will now choose Android phones. This proportion is higher than 6% in January. In December September, Android and Palm were the two most undesirable smartphone operating systems. Android has now ranked second in this ranking.
The increase in the number of Android users affects the iPhone to a certain extent. Although the iPhone is still the most popular smartphone, the number of respondents who want to buy the iPhone has dropped from 32% to 28% in the past three months. However, the iPhone's market share continued to grow by 1% to 31% during the same period. RIM and Palm share 39% and 6% respectively.
Despite the rapid development trend of Android phones, sales of Google's first Android phone Nexus One were not as expected. In sales for the first week. Nexus One sold only 20 thousand units. Therefore, although users have gradually accepted Android, Android still has a long way to go while catching up with the iPhone 3GS.
However, it is not appropriate to directly compare the Nexus One with the iPhone, because the Nexus One is only One of the many Android phones listed in the market recently. Other Android phones. For example, HTC myTouch 3G and Motorola Droid both attract a large number of users. Overall, the market share of Android is on the rise, which is good news for HTC and Motorola.