Watch out Iphone, Android is surging

The latest smartphone subscriber numbers are out, and the last three months have been kind to Google. Android’s still a relatively small player, but its usage base more than doubled since October. The iPhone, meanwhile, keeps on treading water.

RIM remains the leader in the smartphone space, with nearly half the market using BlackBerries. Apple’s 25.1% share is undeniably impressive, but only growing .3 percentage points (relative to the market) means this summer’s impending iPhone 4 release can’t come soon enough for Cupertino. Either that or a whole mess of patent lawsuit wins.

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