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According  to NPD Group, Android OS has surpassed the iPhone in terms of consumer sales in the first quarter, 2010.

The main driver of this, of course, is the carriers. The iPhone is available only on the AT&T network, whereas Android phones are prevalent, if at least available on all others including Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint.

Even AT&T is now offering an Android model, the Motorola BackFlip, with more expected to be available in the summer.

Verizon is the big driver of this, looking to catch up with AT&T in terms of their smart phone sales. Overall, AT&T accounts for 32% of the smartphone market, Verizon, 30%, T-Mobile 17%, and Sprint 15%. Verizon just expanded their buy-one-get-one free promotion to all other handsets as well.

It’s not everyday you see a Windows Mobile smartphone running a Linux-based mobile operating system. But, in the crazy (crazy cool, that is) world of handset hackery, anything is possible. So, it shouldn’t be all that surprising that Android hackers have ported Android OS to the HTC Touch Diamond (Diamond) and HTC Touch Pro (Raphael). The new Android OS ROM has been posted to the HTC-Android forums for anyone willing to use their previous-gen smartphones as Android guinea pics.

To be clear, Android OS runs just fine on the Diamond and Raphael. Unfortunately, there’s still the issue of creating Linux drivers to control all the different devices in the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro. So, for now, Android OS can basically only surf the web and send SMS through the smartphone’s GSM connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G). Everything else (microphone, speaker, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, etc.) just doesn’t work… yet.

We’ll  be looking forward to seeing everything fixed hopefully in the near future. But it would be nice if HTC jumped in on this and ported Android to more of their devices.

[PPCGeeks] [via IntoMobile]