Suddenly, it’s Android, Android, Android.
Apple iPhone-smitten AT&T reportedly is close to signing a deal to offer an Android phone manufactured by Dell, which would mean that all four major U.S. wireless carriers would be marketing smartphones smart enough to run the Google mobile platform.
T-Mobile revealed it will soon be hawking a couple of new Android-powered devices, including the Samsung Behold II and the Motorola CLIQ.
With all of this going on, Gartner’s projection that Android phones would be the second-most popular mobile operating system by 2012, is starting to ring true.
The Symbian operating system, which is the bedrock of Nokia smartphones, would be taken down a notch by then, but still would have a dominant market share, according to Gartner.
A lot can happen between now and 2012, but the proliferation of Android devices is starting to sound like a Google wave.
That’s Google wave, not Google Wave.
You know what I mean.
Sure, the competition is heating up but my own bet is, once the iPhone will become available on Verizon, which has been rumored for some time, it will get another market boost. For an Android device to become the low cost leader is entirely possible and like with the Mac, I don’t think Apple really cares about market share all that much. They much prefer to be the leading innovator and that position seems assured.