What is an Android phone?

What is an Android phone?

Android Phones Pass 700,000 Activations Per Day, Approaching 250 Million Total | TechCrunch
@Calvin Schmidt
"Why 700,000 Android Activations a Day Means Apple is Winning" - MG Siegler's next article.
@Randy Casey
iPhones are a great phone, but their small 3.5 screen is incredibly outdated, with most Android phones having anywhere from a 4" to 4.6" screen these days. For me personally, this is a big factor.
@Tomas Zeman
thats because you can control the phone with one hand only, with bigger screens, you need both hands to use the device.
@Peter Nikolow
Are you sure in that? Because there are HTC Tatoo, Wildfire, SE Xperia 10 Mini and other phones that i can bet are smaller than 3.5" Also check retina display - why Samsung didn't put it on their own devices? Probably will bump prices up...
@Joe Farber
Tomas Zeman using that logic my Eric Estrada poster should be 3.5" instead of life-sized.
@Erik Rose Johnsen
Tomas Zeman It's a multitouch-phone, making
@Erik Rose Johnsen
...the one-hand argument not so valid.
@Jean Marc
Tomas Zeman have you tried using the phone one handed my evo works fine with just one hand
@Joe Farber
Also multitouch... Eric Estrada.
@Eduardo Fenili
Tomas Zeman With the really big guys it is a stretch (Anything above 4.5"), but I wouldn't say 2 hands. I still think Apple needs to at least get into the 4-4.5" range with the iPhone 5...would be stupid if they didn't
@Darren Smith
Tomas Zeman I have an iPhone and a Sensation and I have to zoom much more often on the iPhone. Can you really do that effectively with one hand? Give me at least a 4" screen any day.
@Julian Hugh
Android is the future. As much as I love Apple products, they will not be around long without the vision of Steve Jobs.
@Ariel Castillo
Wrong. OPEN SOURCE is the future.
@Randy Casey
Ariel Castillo That hasn't worked yet so far - if you look at Linux, it has yet to become even a contender in the Desktop/Laptop OS market. Already, iPad browser marketshare has overtaken Linux browser marketshare.
@Ariel Castillo
Randy Casey What about Android? Open Source > Cloused Source in that regard. Time for you to figure that out though. If linux was first to Window then we would be seeing some different results.
@Randy Casey
Ariel Castillo I think we're talking about the same thing. I agree Android is working because it's more open than Apple. We saw the exact same thing happen in the 80's with Apple vs. Microsoft. Apple made computers & better software, but stayed a closed system. Microsoft went the more open route, of licensing their software. This is why 9 our of 10 computers run Windows today. We are seeing the same thing happen again in the iPhone vs. Android arena now.
@Peter Nikolow
Sound fantastic - this numbers include Nook, Fire and other tablets on market.
@Winston Tsao
Probably not. Fire does not require Android "Activation" and with about 500 million smartphone sales in 2011, the number looks right. Even with this number, I wonder who is actually "winning" in this time around (vs the old Apple vs Microsoft days). Google is not making money from the OS licenses, but hoping to make up from the App and Ad revenue. Nook and Fire are both losing money hoping its users will buy more from their respective stores. HTC is making money but with much smaller margins than Apple. Samsung is subsidizing phones and tablets from its money losing components business.
@A-Roy Sunjian
Winston Tsao according to reports from CBS news, google is making $5 billion on android via advertising http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57346049/android-crushes-iphone-makes-google-$5-billion/
@Ariel Castillo
Winston Tsao Nice try. Now seat back and learn how Google labors.
@Mike Mac
No, the article states that it does not include any Nooks, Fires or other WIFI only devices tablets etc . Add those millions on top of these numbers, and Woah....
@A-Roy Sunjian
actually, at 700,000 a day, androids are significantly outsellling ALL of the iOS based devices, and there are reports droids could be activating more than a million a day by early next year.
@A-Roy Sunjian
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57346049/android-crushes-iphone-makes-google-$5-billion/
@Ariel Castillo
Say it like a boss.
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It is natural that Android would sell more phones than iPhone because most people rather buy lower cost cell phones. There are many good holiday deals for Android phones right now. http://bit.ly/tAKPJ3
@Scott Schulte
Bingo Right there. When you are talking Android you are talking many phones. When you are talking apple you are talking 1 phone. Its like comparing Ford F150's to the whole GM line up.
@Michael Martin
That's an old argument that doesn't hold water when the Galaxy Nexus sells out at Verizon recently at a price point of $100 over the iPhone 4S.
@David Wong
If there is anything I did right in 2011, it was picking the Android platform to be the first target for my smartphone app. http://igtsoft.com/
@Serge Bronstein
beginning of the end for apple most likely, I think they are at their peak.
@Samson Ogunsola
How's 1 black man against 15 white men equal? iOS produce both its hardware and software while Android produces the software and manufacturers produces different kinds of software sucks don't you think?
@Chris Van Buskirk
iOS still killing on my sales v. android:(