I don't think it is. I like Android but in my experience it requires really decent hardware, Android on a budget device is agonising.

Numerous of my friends who have no real interest in smartphones beyond messaging, emails and checking the headlines have got low grade Android devices and they utterly detest them. They didn't consciously decide they wanted an Android device it was simply because that's what's offered on the low monthly tariff plans now.

I suspect there are a lot of these people about, they may have Android devices but are not true Android (or even smartphone) converts, it's just that's the best device on offer with the contract that suited them.


NOKIA are failing because Elop announced Symbian had been deprecated, which made carriers and retailers drop it.

I think this is related to my point above, the users that would previously have been offered Symbian phones on the low monthly tariff plans or subsidised carrier locked pay-as-you-go phones are now offered budget Androids instead. It seems to me as things stand Android will continue gaining market share by default simply because there's not much else in this market segment.

NOKIA need to produce something carriers and consumers want and quick.