BGR reports this morning that Android phones are growing rapidly in market share in the US. That's the word from the Nielsen Company, which just released research conducted in August.
Customer surveys showed that over the last 3 months, ending in August, twice as many people purchased an Android-based phone as bought an iPhone. The percentages are 58% for Android, 28% for Apple. The Apple share has been holding steady in the last few Nielsen surveys.
The Nielsen numbers also show that smartphone sales are growing, as more people upgrade from standard cell phones or feature phones. According to Nielsen's research, 43% of the total population of cellphones a
