March 25, 2009 by Tap
Mobile advertiser AdMob has released its latest metrics report for February which shows that Android now accounts for 5% of US smartphone operating system share. Now this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise when you consider that Net Application's reports released earlier this month for January/February showed similar figures.
What is interesting however is how AdMob's reports have tracked Android's growth over the last few months. Here's a summary.
- October 2008 – as you would expect, no mention of Android or the G1/HTC Dream.
- November 2008 – both Android and the G1 make their debut with the G1 generating 15 million requests (that's already 7% of all T-Mobile traffic) and Android gaining a 2% share of the US smartphone OS market.
- December 2008 – G1 requests increase by 46% month over month and the handset just makes it into the US top 20 models list with 0.8% of requests. Android is still at 2% of the US smartphone OS market.
- January 2009 – The G1 rises to number 18 in the US models list with 0.9% of requests. Android increases its US smartphone OS share to 3%.
- February 2009 – The G1 rises again to number 13 in the US phone models list with 1.7% of requests and becomes the number one device on T-Mobile's network. More importantly however, the G1 becomes the 5th most popular smartphone in the US taking Android to 5.2% of the US smartphone OS market.
Source: AdMob