One of most popular articles was our top best Android an' Droid smartphones now an' later. We will revisit the topic every three months. Our last review came at the end of 2011 where we reviewed the top ten best smartphones of 2011.
We will be looking at the top best Android smartphones by carrier, reviewing ratings from numerous authoritative sources. today, we look at Verizon Wireless:
2011 was the first year that the iPad finally had some competition. The top competition came from fire-sale pricing, cool factors and innovation.
Although the iPad 2 was the most popular review for the entire year, the following tablets received honors for trying, pricing and other factors:
We called the HP TouchPad the "tablet that would not die." It's fire-sale pricing was so hot that after HP blew out the 16GB models for $99 and the 32GB models for $149, the tablets showed up on eBay for higher prices. Employees then depleted the TouchPad stock and retailers used the low-priced tablets as promotions to HP computer buyers.
Wireless and Mobile News staff completed the analysis of all the top best hottest coolest smartphones of the year lists and the results are very interesting. We will be publishing the results by carrier, maker and OS this week along with the top best smartphones of the year.
So far, we've published the results for T-Mobile. Today we look at the results for Sprint. Sprint is the only carrier to offer unlimited WiMAX 4G data.
Update 2012 - We've rounded-up the 2012 results for best smartphone from Consumer Reports, T-Mobile, DT, HTC, Droid, Motorola, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, trends, sales figures and the best for 2012.
We wish you all happy holidays and best wishes for a happy new year. We are not finished with our round-up of the top stories and smartphones of the year, yet. However, you will get a clue of what were the top trends of the year by the following song, sung to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
HTC has taken the top spot in the US market for smartphones reported Canalys, today while Samsung was named the number one smartphone vendor in the world. At the two-anniversary of the launch of the first Droid, Android has the highest market share in the United States.
HTC shipped 5.7 million smartphones in the United States under its own brand which is a quarter of the market, as well as an estimated 70,000 units under the T-Mobile brand smartphones.
" HTC offers some of the most compelling and differentiated products found on the platform today." said Chris Jones Canalys vice president. Popular HTC models included the HTC EVO 3D, HTC Sensation 4G, HTC myTouch 4G Slide, Droid Incredible by HTC, HTC ThunderBolt, HTC Inspire and EVO 4G.
Android holds nearly 70% of the smartphone platform share in the United States, compared with 57% worldwide.