By Donald Melanson
published on May 8, 2011 6: 14 PM
change of percentage in the table above indicates the greater part of the story here. According to the latest report from Comscore, participation of Android in the smartphone market grew an impressive six percent in the three-month period ending in March to land at 34.7% and RIM had the most success of result, sliding of 4.5 points to 27.1%. It is enough to keep you ahead of Apple, however, which held its own with a slight gain to 25.5 per cent. Microsoft and Palm / HP fell just below a percentage of each to the Earth in a distant fourth and fifth, respectively. As for OEM mobile, things remained nearly identical during the period of three months, with Samsung, LG, and Motorola to occupy the first three points and only Apple see any significant progress thanks to Verizon iPhone launch - although still was not enough to send it over the edge for fourth place. Hit up the link source for all numbers.
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rooting your Motorola Xoom did not prevent him from an LTE hardware upgrade, but it will produce up to a roadblock if you are trying to watch rented movies of YouTube / Android Market. Android Central said a support document from Google detailing the "it could not obtain the license for the title of the film (error 49)" message users see when trying to play a movie in a rooted Android device. Only Xooms with Android 3.1 have access to the service now, but once support implements all Android 2.2 or higher devices in a couple of weeks some will have to choose between their root privileges and offers of film emerging from Google (at least unless someone discovers a solution of anyway). Until now rooting and jailbreaking not end other movies rental services for mobiles (iTunes, Netflix) so even if Google accuses the studios of the policy, seems like a bizarre restriction for the company behind the "open" platform that.