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After months of companies, like Motorola and HTC, pushing their Android phones in sales and marketing, Android has finally passed Apple’s iPhone in US market share, according to the NPD group. The results were determined by a survey of smartphone owners, which put Android’s 28% share behind RIM’s BlackBerry with a high, but falling, 36% market share. Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD, said, “As in the past, carrier distribution and promotion have played a crucial role in determining smartphone market share. In order to compete with the iPhone, Verizon Wireless has expanded its buy-one-get-one offer beyond RIM devices to now include all of their smartphones.”

Android’s leap forward wasn’t the only thing mentioned in the report. The results showed that AT&T barely beat Verizon, 32% to 30%, for the largest American cellular network and T-Mobile edging out Sprint for the number three spot at 17% and 15% respectively.

Source: NPD

Another unknown HTC phone cleared the FCC today, supposedly headed to Verizon with CDMA bands and a model number PB99100. While no one has any proof that this is the Nexus One, the fact that the Nexus One with GSM bands had a model number of PB99300 might mean you can pick up this phone at a Verzion store near you come springtime, but there’s been no word or official confirmation from the guys at Google, HTC, or Verizon.

Update: Neowin reports that a Google employee has told them that Google will host a press conference during the first day of the CTIA wireless conference (March 23), where they will introduce the CDMA Nexus One.

Source: FCC, Neowin

Verizon announced the Motorola DEVOUR, the Droid’s little brother, today with a press statement. The DEVOUR is essentially a lighter Droid and being Verizon’s first Android phone with Motoblur. Other delicious specs include Bluetooth, 8GB microSD card preinstalled, a 3.1″ capacitive touch screen. There is no mention of multi-touch, since it only runs Android 1.6 for the time being. Look for the phone to drop in an Verizon store near you in March.

Palm let the cat out of the bag today at CES – the Pre Plus for Verizon.

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Palm showed off their Pixi Plus as expected here in CES.

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Just after the announcement of the Tegra 2, NVIDIA has now teamed up with Verizon for a 1080p, LTE rocking tablet.  Read the rest of this entry →

Everyone knows about the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus – Verizon’s version of the two Palm phones, which are set to be unveiled at CES tomorrow, and specs were leaked today. Read the rest of this entry →

The Motorola Sholes (or Droid) is Verizon’s first Android powered phone, and it will make landfall on the carrier on October 28, a Wednesday, with Android 2.0 out of the box. Another thing of note, Verizon hasn’t given any sign of the friendly, green Android doing anything with this phone. Instead it’s been replaced by a red eye looking very much like HAL.

Via Engadget