Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like that's the kind of frontier mentality we're getting again today in the nascent Android landscape. Just a couple weeks after launching, mobile ad clearinghouse AdMob reports that the
Motorola Droid is already accounting for a whopping 24 percent of all its Android-based traffic -- no small feat, considering that the then-unreleased device didn't even move the needle in their October report (pictured in the left graph). The HTC Dream -- the world's first retail Android device, you might remember -- still reigns supreme at 36 percent, but it's amazing that the entire Android space is still volatile enough to register nearly a 25 percent shift with the launch of a single new device on a single carrier. For comparison, the
CLIQ clocks in with a lowly 6 percent -- proof that Verizon's aggressive advertising has been working some magic. Question is, what'll be the next device to completely screw up this pie chart again?
posted November 23rd 2009 6:01PM
@JXCGunrunna
Because it would make me very, very happy, and T-Mobile is doing everything they can to make me happy...Right?...Right???
@JXCGunrunna
Because the Cliq was a massive failure and VZW is putting all of it's weight behind the Droid brand?
TMO needs a worthy successor to the G1... and that's going to be either the Dragon (hopefully) or the X10 (hopefully not... Sony's price point is a joke).
This graph so misleading readers.
@Junzhi The X10 still has a lot of months to go. It has been rumored that the final copy will be running 2.0. Every software revision has been improving, so the review sites say. So between now and its release it should mature into a pretty good product.
So that's why Google bought Admob. For access to information like this.
Answer is: Sadly not the X10.
"...it's amazing that the entire Android space is still volatile enough to register nearly a 25 percent shift with the launch of a single new device on a single carrier."
That could be more a sign of how small the Android market still is, as opposed to how big a launch the Droid has had.
It stands to reason that each new handset will have a successively smaller impact, save for a small selection of stand-out phones.
@Step666
Exactly, and it also shows how little impact the dozen phones released between the G1 and the Droid have made.
Good to see Droid has 20% of smartphone market share. This considering the fact that it did not have many apps at launch. It also makes sensethat it would be Google to finally give Apple some competition in the Smartphone market.
obviously, Droid OS's is one of the fastest if not the fastest mobile OS available. This just prove that the Droid Launch last week was really a success despite of the "slow-start" comment by tech-critiques
Collation of info about droid release last week: http://bit.ly/did-droid-conquered-USA-today
This proves Droid is the Hands of Midas of Verizon now :D
@victoria Did you even read the article? 20% of smartphone market?
Clicky shows droid at about 3.5% marketshare. Android as a whole has about 10%. This data is based on the 150,000+ sites that Clicky monitors for web analytics.
http://getclicky.com/marketshare/us/droid/
Hopefully that Hero number will creep up now that Sprint have taken it on, shame the Droid Eris probably isn't counted seeing as it lacks the Hero moniker, despite being the same thing.
In the UK we've has the Hero available on 3G bands for awhile, but it's only recently been picked up by a US carrier, so with less of a fan-fare compared to the Droid it may take some time to grow (it's not even in the US table, but 6th on the UK table.)
Hopefully Android 2.0 with Sense UI will really push that Hero love further.
The next phone is going to have to be really ridiculous in order to really sweep. Its goign to need a real GPU and a real CPU. If there was a way to an an A9 cortex with tegra (possible) or a psycho snapdragon, then the droid is just going to seem like the first gameboy. Enter the SE X10 on Att (i hate att!). Hopefully ....................
ugh. this data is useless. it is a Mobile Advertising "network" targeted it the iphone and adriod phones..
for the love of god, they have a iphone and a moto driod on the front page!
all metrics come from clicky web analytics...
who are their big sites?
smashing magazine, mashables, wakcopa, centernetworks, wine library TV, buysellads.com, BGR, the inquistitr, adrants?
WTF are these sites?
http://getclicky.com/marketshare/us/droid/#
useless data.. totally useless...
@SoCoolCurt
I'm guessing you only saw the original ads before launch?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/new-droid-ads-show-off-android-will-make-a-man-out-of-you/
The X-10 will be the new elephant in the room which is an obvious choice
Wonder how many so called "droid" phones are really g-1's running cyanogenmod. Many modded phones have been identifying themselves as droids to get certain functionality (e.g. the navigation hack).
Man Moto is the ultimate comeback kid! I think in the 30 years I have been paying attention they have managed to pull back from the brink at least 3 times now. That is awesome! Nice to see they are still working the problems and innovating great tech for us gadget freaks.
D-D-D-D-D--DROID!
@soydeedo I'm not sure how in the world my post got moved to yours. Sorry, man.
I don't feel like the X10 will be this huge new elephant in the room based off of price alone. SE products are simply priced to high for what they are. I understand that they are priced aggressively because of their modern and very sheik styling, but that won't help it sell units, right? If AT&T is willing to show its love to SE like it does for Apple and subsidize the CRAP out the X10 so people can afford them, then I just don't see it being this huge new seller. I think it would do ok, but it wouldn't be a small phenomenon like the Droid has been.
I like where Android is headed (I own a 3G iPhone). Maybe next year I'll switch to Verizon on some new Android device...
@soydeedo Uh...these posts are just going anywhere they please, huh?
I just bought a Samsung Moment, which I am in love with, but 1.5 is killing me. Does anyone know when sprint is putting out an update? I'm surprised more people aren't interested in the Moment, its got a fast processor, a full keyboard, and an AMOLED display.
Where's the other charts from the same article showing headset market share and the iphone leading the way? I guess that's not news at a pc-centric engadget.
@(Unverified)
Don't think there would be a factual chart showing the Iphone at the top of the marketshare list.
Symbian is still the market leader by a long way, with Winmo in 2nd (but quickly being chipped away by the mobile OSX and Android). So mobile OS X isn't going to be on top.
Even if you want to go by device market share, 5800 XM is probably the top selling smart device world wide (can't find reliable numbers for that though). Remember Asian market = much bigger then USA/Europe.
If you want to talk overall, I bet there are more S40 based dumbphones out there then android and webOS devices combined lol =)
I guess Iphone definitely takes the crown for largest growth device... it's amazing how much ground they have captured in the relatively short time the phone has been out. To each his own..
Proud 5800XM and Iphone 3G owner
when the hack came out to install google nav on the G1, part of the hack involved changing the build.prop file on your G1 to make it appear as a "droid" device. a big part of me wonders if that could have artificially inflated the droid numbers when admob did their poll.
The Droid is simply put, a great phone, and I don't throw the term great around loosely. It's no surprise that it's exploding on the scene like it is. I expect it will pack a mighty punch over the next 6 months. If Moto and Verizon are smart, they will bring the Droid along just like the Iphone, releasing better, faster, updated models of the same phone. No need to oversaturate. Over saturated is where Blackberry is currently at. That's not a good place to be.