2012: Apple iPhone to be outsold by Google Android phones

Informa Telecoms and Media have published a new report that’s states that Android Smartphone’s will exceed sales of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone by 2012. It is expected that the share of Smartphone’s will go up, due to the fall in handset prices.

The report also says that by 2013 almost 2 out of 5 phones sold will be Smartphone’s, sales of mobile phones look set to fall by 10 percent in 2010, with Smartphone sales growing by a third. Android-based Smartphone’s are expected to thrive because of the absence of licenses, compared to the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Palm and RIM.

It is thought that Android sales will surpass that of the iPhone by 2012. Only a few million units have been sold, and the small trickle of Android sales is expected to become a stream by the end of 2009.

This is all speculation of course; this report does not take into considering that Apple will offer a new version of their iPhone in that time. Look how great the 3G version is now; just think what the next model will be like.

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