Consumers Now More Likely To Purchase Android Device Than Iphone

Consumers looking to order their next mobile device tend to buy an Android-based cell phone than an iPhone, depending on results of a unique consumer survey recently shared by industry research solid Market Force Information.

Any poll involved 5, 600 respondents from across the country and Canada. About 70 percent associated with respondents reported household incomes greater than $50, 000, while all ranged in age through 19 to 70.



It was revealed this 51 percent of respondents will select a smartphone running Google's Android mobile os in this handset. One-third of respondents said they planned to invest in an iPhone, while six percent said they won't be purchasing a smartphone in the slightest degree, instead opting for an attribute phone.

Researchers found a lot of these results somewhat surprising, along with the enormous hype surrounding any Verizon Wireless release of a CDMA-supported iPhone. Until then, Verizon had focused many of its smartphone efforts for Android.

"With the Verizon-Apple partnership in motion, we anticipated that more consumers might possibly be moving to the iphone, so it intrigued us to see the sizeable shift in the direction of the Android, " Market Force chief marketing expert Janet Eden-Harris said.

These results provide further evidence of Android's meteoric popularity of the smartphone market. A year ago, the platform was a player compared to Apple company company, Nokia's Symbian OS and BlackBerry manufacturer Research During Motion. But in mere months there are jumped to the the top of global market.

Market Force's survey as well asked consumers about which inturn mobile services carrier they register for. Results closely mirror the prevailing market share rankings, utilizing Verizon topping the variety at 36 percent, AT&T after that at 28 percent, with Sprint and T-Mobile from 12 percent and 10 percent, respectively.

Those figures may not change much soon, as just 9 per-cent of consumers said they planned to change carriers. They said a switch would most likely be due to expense or coverage issues or simply because the device they would like to purchase is not made available from their current carrier.

Perhaps given that they are the only carriers to market the iPhone, nearly all 9 per-cent of consumers who planned to switch carriers would be making the proceed to either AT&T or Verizon.

It's more bad news for the iPhone lately. One seven days after its Verizon debut, a written report of sales figures leaked, showing the Verizon machine only marginally out-sold AT&T's device during one time period.