According to Admob's latest mobile metrics the Motorola Droid accounted for almost a third of of Android- traffic during the March.
Nothing else came close to the Droid's 32%, the HTC Hero had 19 percent of
the traffic. T-Mobile G1 and (myTouch 3G) tied for third, with 11
percent each.
The Droid
by Motorola has gotten excellent
reviews. Droid came in second in The Wireless Mobile News'
Top Ten Best Smartphones of 2009
Review of Reviews. The Droid has voice search and
turn-by-turn directions. The Droid is packed
with cool time-saving features.Verizon
heavily promoted the Droid. It received an update to Android 0S 2.1. Wirefly has the Motorola Droid for $19.99
after instant discount with a new plan.
The iPhone 3GS captured 39% of iPhone OS requests, followed by the 2nd
generation iPod touch (25%) and the iPhone 3G (20%). The Metrics Report is a snapshot of the traffic
flowing through the AdMob network.
Motorola was the leading Android manufacturer with 44% share of traffic
in March 2010 due to the success of the Droid and CLIQ. HTC was a close
second with 43% of requests, followed by Samsung with 9%.
Six of the top eight Android handsets have a display resolution of 320 x
480. These devices generated 60% of traffic in March 2010. The Motorola
Droid (854 x 480) and Google Nexus One (800 x 480) are the two devices
with different resolutions.
At least 54% of Android traffic came from devices with a QWERTY
keyboard. These include three of the top five Android devices, the
Motorola Droid, HTC Dream, and Motorola CLIQ.
92% of traffic came from Android devices with a CPU slower than 600 MHz
in March 2010.
It will be interesting to see what happens after the intro tomorrow of the HTC Droid Incredible. The HTC
Droid
Incredible (Android) (Verizon) has spectacular specs, 8 mpx
camera, 1 GHz processor,
tethering as modem, optical sensor, Android Eclair 2.1, HTC Sense. The Droid
Incredible has gotten rave reviews has similar features to the
Nexus One with the added bonuses of a higher resolution camera and
trackpad.
The Google Nexus One received excellent
reviews,
and then "issues" appeared with long waits for email support and
touchiness with the touchscreen, which have been fixed. Google will not release a Nexus One for Verizon and suggests the Droid Incredible, instead.