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04-18-2014, 04:20 PM
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xRjNWUPRlAMnpYOqvRPhHg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/b76f496908c3419a495ac0fc798084838337c9e3.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/android-gains-us-basic-phones-almost-extinct-200756150.html)The Google Android platform grabbed the majority of mobile phones in the US market in early 2014, as consumers all but abandoned non-smartphone handsets, a survey showed Friday. The poll by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners found 53 percent of new mobile phones activated by US customers were Android devices in the January-March period. Apple's iOS, the platform used by the iPhone, accounted for 42 percent, the survey found. Late last year 20 percent bought a "basic" mobile phone.



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