iPhone the top smartphone at both AT&amp;T and Verizon

An informal survey of 250 Verizon and AT&T retail stores by BTIG suggests the iPhone is the top-selling handset at both wireless carriers, reports All Things D. The Verizon iPhone has been available for five months and 51% of stores surveyed ranked the Apple smartphone as its #1 seller. Another 38% of Verizon stores say the iPhone is tied with an Android handset, usually the 4G Samsung Droid Charge or the HTC Thunderbolt.

Over at AT&T, the iPhone is by far the dominant handset. In 65% of AT&T stores queried, the iPhone is the best selling handset; only 38% claimed an Android was outselling the iOS device. When you combine the statistics from the two wireless carriers, the iPhone 4 is the #1 handset in 58% of the stores surveyed and another 20% ranked the iPhone on par with a competing device. Notably missing from this survey are BlackBerry and Windows Phone devices, which barely make a dent in the sales of the iPhone and Android models.

Beyond the iPhone, Apple is making it a clean sweep with the iPad topping the charts as the dominant tablet and the iPod claiming top honors in the portable media player category.

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@qvaterlaus

This headline is misleading. The survey is informal and it is only representative of physical stores. What about Verizon selling via their distributors (like Diamond Wireless)? What about AT&T selling their phones at Radioshacks across the U.S.? What about online sales? And it is based on calling the stores and asking what they think they sell most. Just because associate A sells more iPhones than associate B doesn't make it the dominant handset (and for that matter, just because associate B sells more Droids than associate A doesn't make that the dominant handset either). The pure statistics read out in quarterly reports from both companies, not an informal survey. I like having the iPhone in the #2 or #3 position. Means it can get away with more stuff than the market leaders can and makes it more of a "high-end" product than the phone we see "everywhere."

P.S. Stop putting Android v iPhone crap on your page just for page views...

June 22 2011 at 10:48 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply

gumhot

thank you....
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June 22 2011 at 8:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian G

And that doesn't include the number of iPhones for AT&T and Verizon that are selling at Apple Stores where the statistic is more like 100% iPhone.

June 22 2011 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

KiKaL

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-iphone-market-share-2011-4

hmmm

June 22 2011 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down Reply

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Brian Flores

Do you honestly take any analysis titled "Android Is Destroying Everyone" without a grain of salt? Blodget's anti-Apple bent has been well established, and his off-the-cuff conflation of Android with the Windows desktop OS will prove roughly as accurate as Harold Camping's doomsday prophecies.

June 22 2011 at 10:12 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

wave9x

That article referenced data for the period ending Feb 2011, so does not include the Verizon iPhone. Android's market share has actually declined since March.

June 23 2011 at 12:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply