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According to the most recent Nielsen research institute reports, it is revealed that the growth of Android Smartphone sales are stagnant, but particularly in the U.S. the market is going to raise. But the movement was driven by iPhone sales, Apple's smartphone.

In the survey, the share of new iPhone users increased to 17 percent compared with 10 percent in early 2011. As for the percentage of new users of Android-based smartphone is stagnant at 27 percent.

While, as cited from Ars Technica, June 6, 2011, the figures show that Android is still dominating the smartphone sales to users who buy smartphones in the last three months. However, people interest on the platform it stopped growing for a while.

As is known, before it had time to sluggish sales of the iPhone and Android skyrocketed. However, analysts expect, the iPhone launch by Verizon likely contribute to distorting the situation.

From the survey, note also that in the United States, sales of BlackBerry continues to decline. The numbers fell from 11 percent to 6 percent in recent months.Windows Phone also less popular. The percentage of sales is only about 1percent.

However, the smartphone itself has huge potential. Because of the Nielsen survey,55 percent of recent phone buyers prefer a smartphone than feature phones. The figure rose from just 34 percent last year.