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It's worth remembering, however, that relatively few Android handsets are the top-end, all-singing and dancing units like the HTC Incredible...the ones that'll get well-supported, and upgraded to new Android OSs as they become available. Many more Android phones are like this operator-branded Optimus Stockholm from Portugal, which sports Android Froyo 2.2 and costs a tiny €99 ($140).
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That is, relatively few of the Android phones on the market, the ones that contribute to that great growth,
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Remember those figures about Nokia's collapsing market in Australia? That's one market where Apple's actually winning--and it's become the nation's biggest phone retailer of any brand, an amazing fact given that there are only two iPhone types on sale compared to an armload of different Nokia and Android handsets.
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Yet another statistic for you to think about: 40% of European phone buyers, according to a recent survey, are planning on buying an iPhone next--twice as many as plan on buying an Android device, and this is a region where nearly half of the phones sold are on a pre-pay basis.
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So whats the point?
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Nearly everything we think about the smartphone wars rests on relatively few markets, and in the case of the U.S., mostly on contracted, post-pay vendor models. As smartphone sales explode around the world, Android is certainly the most popular OS for now--it's taking up the gap that the demise of Nokia's Symbian-powered feature phones once occupied. But if Apple really does bring its "luxury" iPhone to a lower price, then it will target that 70% global space that we tend to forget about. Though probably not for long.
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Have a good day, folks.
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