Apple’s iPhone is top dog when it comes to future smartphone purchases in the US, while interest in Google Android-powered devices has grown rapidly at the expense of WIndows Mobile and Palm.
That’s the skinny inside today’s latest Changewave Research findings, the company’s 90 day survey of consumer smartphone adoption. ChangeWave’s December 9-14 survey of 4,068 consumers shows the Android operating system roiling the smart phone market, with Motorola’s new Droid smart phone the biggest and most immediate beneficiary.
Among respondents who currently own a smart phone, 4% say they’re using Google’s Android operating system – a 3-pt jump since a similar September survey. And 21% of those planning to buy a smart phone in the next 90 days say they’d prefer to have the Android OS on th