Android demolishing iPhone in sales

NPD says that in the first three months of 2010, Android captured 28% of the smartphone market, while Apple's iPhone grabbed only 21%.

Google's Android phones passed the iPhone in market share in the U.S. for the first time during the first quarter 2010.

Android is on all of the U.S. carriers and is the flagship smartphone on a couple of them like T-Mobile and Verizon. Verizon, the nation's best network, which had sold Motorola Droids as fast as Apple initially sold iPhones had just launched the HTC Incredible. While Sprint will be announcing the HTC Evo 4G this summer, considered by many to be the premier Android phone.Even Apple's iPhone U.S. carrier, AT&T, carries Android phones, and Google offers a Nexus One with radios specifically for AT&T's network.

Android's rise has been dramatic, as seen below.

Apple only releases one iPhone a year on just one network, AT&T. Most Apple customers understand this and wait for the summer to upgrade their phones. Many iPhone contracts will come up for renewal this July.

Statistics show that Blackberry still leads the pack with 36% of the smartphone market, though it has fallen significantly in the last two quarters from its 50% pedestal.