Android to surpass iPAD by 2016

Google's Android has been a major competitor in the smartphone industry, but it hasn't quite been that successful in terms of tablets. That being said, a new research conducted by Informa suggests that Android tablets could overtake iPad sales by 2016, which is another 5 years from now.

Apple currently holds about 75%, but the research claims that company's dominance in the tablet market will see a huge fall and will end up at a mere 39%. The theory seems very well worked and we cannot disregard the possibility of this happening sooner than 2015. Apple doesn't have an array of tablets to brag about with the iPad 2 currently being the single and the flagship tablet of the company. We have always stressed on the fact that the head-start that the iPad maker got with the competitive tablet market has been very alarming for the likes of Google, and hence it became necessary to bring out the Honeycomb platform.

The Galaxy Tab, which initially came with Froyo, is the best selling Android tablet to date and that's mainly due to the fact that there weren't any (Android) competitors to the tablet at the time of the launch. However, today with Google's Honeycomb update, the Android scene has opened up considerably. That being said, even with the platform's arrival early this year, there haven't been many Android 3.x tablets.

David McQueen, who is an analyst, said, "From 2013, as cheaper and more advanced Android tablets enter the market, we forecast that sales will pick up considerably, eventually surpassing iPad sales in 2016". He further added, "We have seen a huge explosion in the tablet market in recent years, driven primarily by the iPad, and we estimate that the market will go from strength to strength, growing from under 20 million tablets sold in 2010, to over 230 million in 2015". Given Android's open source nature, it isn't quite hard to make these speculations. The slow roll out of iPads could benefit Honeycomb and ultimately Google.

Android's milestone

Google can rejoice, as its Android mobile OS is now active on over 130 million devices with 5,50,000 devices activated every day.

Just two months ago, Google announced that it has crossed the 100 million devices activated milestone with over 4,00,000 devices activated daily. But all is not well for the little green robot as Apple still holds the numero uno position with 200 million iOS device activated as on June 2011.

Although there are other mobile operating systems in the market like HP's Web OS on the TouchPad, RIM's OS on the PlayBook and BlackBerry devices and Windows Phone 7 on Microsoft's mobile handsets,

Google's Android seems to be the only OS that can give Apple a run for its money. In the past two years, the Android OS has brought handset manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Dell and even the like of Micromax on consumers radar as these manufacturers not only deliver quality handsets at affordable rates but deliver a great Android experience as well.

As of June 2011, Apple is still the king of the apps with 4,25,000 apps available to users in the Apps store. In this respect Android isn't even close to Apple as it has 2,50,000 apps in the Marketplace available for users to download.Apple has seen over 15 billion apps downloaded from its app store were as Android lags behind with 6 billion app downloaded.

Android Business Application

Android, the mobile operating system by Google has a major dominance over the mobile OS market. Its "app store" is still in expansion mode. Here is a list of 5 basic and essential Android applications which would be great support for managing business.


CONTACT PLUS
Now manage you contacts according to you profile. Contact Plus is the app for you to create the company list and find contacts. It has useful features, Contacts list, Group list, Company list(Organization), Change font size and Change sort view. Contact Plus app support different language, English, Hangul(Korea), Czech, Swedish (just sort).

OPEN OFFICE DOCUMENT READER
The Open Office Document Reader to view your documents created using Open Office or Libre Office on the go.Simple, fast, lightweight and well-integrated. Use almost any app to view your .odt-files and .ods-files on Android, including GMail, Box.net, Dropbox, ZumoDrive, File Expert, ODF / OpenDocument, EStrongs File Explorer and many more and provide you the features, zoom, copy text, formatting, image support, built-in file chooser, spreadsheet support.

CURRENCY  CONVERTER
Working from abroad and confused about the money earn from there n want to convert according to currency of your country here is the solution for you while using Android mobile. Currency Converter is the app, which convert and calculate the currency with Real-time update rates. It can convert USD,EUR,AUD,BGN,BRL, CAD,CHF,CNY,CZK,DKK,EEK,GBP,HKD,HRK,HUF,IDR,INR,JPY,KRW,LTL,LVL, MXN,MYR,NOK,NZD,PHP,PLN,RON,RUB,SEK,SGD,THB,TRY,ZAR.

ADAO  TASK MANAGER
Worried  about your Android phone’s battery backup and performance. Here is the app for your phone, Adao Task Manager which kills the tasks running back hand on your phone. it provide you features, Simple,quick,easy to use, Ignore list to exclude apps, Auto kill apps after screen off, one-click kill widget and even ignore alarm clock to save battery,kill task,free memory,speed up phone.

OPEN MANAGER
Open manager is the app to manage your Android phone’s files and applications. With this app you can copy/paste, cut/paste, delete/rename, multi-select, search, (un)zip files, attach files to email, install applications, backup your applications, view running processes and more.