According to the latest Admob Mobile Metrics Report, December 2008, Android has captured 2% OS Share in the US during two months only;  while the iPhone OS generated 48% of smartphone requests in December, up from only 9% in May. The monthly mobile metrics report by Admob provide insight into trends in the mobile ecosystem, generated from the 6,000 mobile web sites and 400 applications around the world part of the Admob network.

In the same context; Medialets, a New York based mobile advertising start-up, have a chart of Active users in iPhone Vs Android showing a fast growth of Android daily users against iPhone (390% for Android compared to 256% for iPhone). We have contacted Medialets earlier in December ’08, to request more information on the data used in that chart, but we didn’t got any answer until today.

While it’s not possible to run Android on current iPhone, anyone can create amazing skins for the emulator. AndDev.org have created an amazing iPhone skin for Android emulator in two flavors : landscape and portrait. To use it, unzip the downloaded package then rename it to iphone_HVGA-L and iphone_HVGA-P, instead of using the default names. Copy to android_sdk/tools/lib/images/skins/ and you are ready. To run the emulator with the new skin see our previous tips. Then enjoy !