Windows Phone 7 could bear a danger to Android (report)

Summary: Android is the indisputable cheater in the husbandly smartphone mart deal as of late, but that could modify as consumers embellish more alive of another ambulatory platforms likewise those of Google and Apple.

Android has consistently been at the crowning of the U.S. smartphone mart deal for months now, but a newborn inform suggests Windows Phone 7 could be a large danger than we would expect.

According to a newborn inform from Connected Intelligence, a assist of the investigate concern NPD Group, institute that Android generates more welfare than some another OS with 63 proportionality of the responses and it was tagged as the papers that consumers are "most fascinated in" with 36 percent.

Last month, the NPD Group suggested that Android's momentum is so brawny correct today that it could modify increase Motorola Mobility if the effort by Google is approved.

However, there is shack for another operative systems — most notably Windows Phone 7. The difficulty for WP7 is that 45 proportionality of consumers are ease not alive of it. Additionally, 44 proportionality of smartphone owners, and those who impart to acquire one, said that they are at small considering to acquire a Windows Phone 7 device.

Linda Barrabee, a investigate administrator for Connected Intelligence explained in a statement that though the Android "juggernaut" continues, it is ease covering brawny rivalry from Apple's iOS and modify Windows Phone 7.

Windows Phone 7 has a artefact to go before consumers rattling see what it is. But with the correct marketing mojo, apps portfolio, and feature-rich hardware, Microsoft could sure meliorate its stagnant and defect absent at Android's dominating mart position.

Over the terminal some months, Microsoft has flailed a lowercase taste in the U.S. smartphone market, descending from 7.5 proportionality of the U.S. smartphone mart deal in March to 5.8 proportionality in June, according to a inform from comScore in August.

Of course, this welfare will agitate undoubtedly, either in souvenir or against Microsoft, erst Windows Phone 7 with the expected Mango update and then Windows Phone 8 listing out.

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Rachel King is a body illustrator for ZDNet supported in San Francisco.