Handset manufacturers and carriers are unleashing a slew of Android phones into the market. About 50 Android phones will hit the market soon, according to the site Wiseandroid.
However, Android will mostly take market share away from Nokia's Symbian OS rather than the iPhone, according to a report from In-Stat.
"Phone makers want cheap and popular devices, so Android is a fit," Allen Nogee, a principal analyst at In-Stat, told MacNewsWorld. "They know that RIM, Microsoft and Apple will take market share if they don't unify behind one strong OS. Android works for those companies that aren't backing another OS, and there can be power in numbers."
Sales of the iPhone will remain strong, Nogee predicts. "Apple sold about 8 million iPhones in 2008 and will sell close to 32 million this year," he said. "This will more than double again in 2014 but, by then, Apple might have two or three models."
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