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Report: Android Now Has 6 Percent of the U.S. Smartphone Market

In spite of rumblings that the Android operating system isn't spreading out to more handsets, consider this finding from researchers at AdMob: The Android OS now has 6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market and is tied with Palm as the fourth-largest OS. AdMob's latest research on the smartphone market also found that growth in requests [to AdMob's network] from devices running the Android and iPhone operating systems continued to outpace other platforms in March, despite the relatively limited number of devices in market. The growth in requests from devices is largely being driven by very healthy growth in usage of the app stores for both Android and the iPhone. Here are some of the other key points from AdMob's report.



Could Handwriting Recognition Become Android's Advantage?

As JKOnTheRun notes, The Android Developer's Blog has a detailed post up about soft keyboard input methods. The post includes this: The Android IMF is designed to support a variety of IMEs, including soft keyboard, hand-writing recognizers, and hard keyboard translators. Our focus, however, will be on soft keyboards, since this is the kind of input method that is currently part of the platform.? We've also noted that the new software development kit (SDK) for the next version of Android includes much better capabilities for both handwriting recognition and speech recognition. JKOnTheRun suggests that good handwriting recognition could become a big differentiator for Android devices as they compete with the iPhone and BlackBerry. Check out their thoughts.?