1 In 3 Americans Wants An iPhone 5, Even Though It Doesn’t Exist Yet
Everyone knows it coming the questions is do you want it. The iPhone is consider to the the most popular phone out there and there Set release there next version of the phone sometime this fall. The Huffingtonpost has a very interesting article stating that 1-3 people want to new iPhone Check it out.
Here is a little excerpt:
Not very much is known for a fact about the iPhone 5–not its release date, not the new features it will have, not how much it will cost, nor, indeed, whether or not it even exists (there are rumors Apple’s next iPhone will be the ”iPhone 4S”).
And yet one thing is set in stone: Americans want one.
According to a survey of about 3,000 U.S. consumers conducted by online retail store PriceGrabber.com, 35 percent of shoppers say they plan on buying an iPhone 5 whenever it is released. Of that 35 percent, half of the respondents say they will buy the new iPhone within a year of its release, while about 30 percent want to be using it by New Year’s 2012, responding that they would purchase the phone by the end of the year. Though Android is America’s top smartphone platform by volume as per a recent Nielsen survey, 48 percent of the PriceGrabber survey respondents indicated that iOS was their desired platform of choice. Nielsen’s numbers tell a slightly different story, one that suggests Android’s popularity is on the rise: according to research conducted between July and September 2010, 25.5 percent of consumers said their next desired smartphone platform was Android, while a greater share, 32.7 percent, said they preferred to buy an iPhone for their next phone. Those ratios have since evened out. Nielsen found in a survey conducted between January and March 2011 that 31.1 percent of users planned on getting an Android phone, whereas 30 percent planned on getting an iPhone.
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