A recent survey by ChangeWave shows that Android has overtaken the iPhone as the mobile OS that smart phone buyers plan to buy in 2010. In Dec 2009 it is Android’s 21 percent vs iPhone’s 28 percent and fast forward to March 2010 and Android tops interest to 30 percent while iPhone’s at 29 percent. A mere 1 percent win but a win is a win.

This trend shows that Android will be a growing threat to the iPhone OS X. The other competing platforms such as RIM, Windows Mobile saw a drop in interest. In the satisfaction area though the iPhone leads at 76 percent while Android is a near second with 65 percent.

Analyse the statistics more with 4 more pics of the ChangeWave survey graphs after the break.

Via: Electronista

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Verizon Wireless is reducing the price on the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus smart phones and this could help Palm win some customers who have been struggling to compete with the likes of Apple, HTC, Samsung in the smartphone markets.

Both the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are touch screens with standard QWERTY keyboard and black in color. The difference is the sliding keyboard of the Palm Pre Plus.

Verzon spokeswoman Brenda Raney said that Verizon is selling Palm’s Pre Plus for $50, down from $150 while the Pixi Plus now goes for $30 instead of $80. Customers who wants a smartphone on the cheap should find this a good deal. Both of these require a two year contract though.

Via: WareSeeker

The Palm Pre phone is a few months from launch and Palm is wasting no time luring developers onto its new operating system. According to Palm, developing for its new webOS will be much easier than other mobile platforms because it only requires programmers to know Javascript and CSS which are much simpler to learn than other mobile programming language.

Palm introduced its webOS operating ystem at a teleconference tutorial where Palm CTO Mitch Allen demonstrated a quick way to build an application. Developers can even use existing Javascript libraries to speed up their development process. Palm has made the right move by offering early access to its software development kit to a few key companies as well.

If it was as easy as Palm exclaimed, it would be interesting to see how Palm webOS will be able to compete with the likes of Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile.

Source: Wired