New Gadget 2011

Since Verizon finally has the iPhone, now everyone wants to know exactly how it will impact the mobile phone market. Everyone wants to know if customers will leave AT&T and if Verizon will be getting a large increase in its users

The online ad network, Chitika, says that the real fight won�t be AT&T against Verizon; it will be the battle between the two operating systems of the iOS versus the Android. If you look at a sample of 2.5 million click rates on the Chitika network, the network discovered that 55 percent of their traffic from Android came from Verizon customers. In contrast, Sprint only had 25 percent, T-Mobile only had 18 percent, and AT&T was a poor fourth at two percent.

So, the bottom line is that since Apple is giving Verizon the iPhone in February, they have tapped into a large potential market of new users and they are attacking Android at a very crucial point, said Chitika in a blog post.

He went on to say that the reason for AT&T�s lousy showing with Android was rather foggy, but that if AT&T customers are only picking the iPhone because they like it better, then Android�s share of the market on Verizon could be in serious jeopardy. But, he added, if instead these smart phone customers just believe Apple�s Android offerings are not as good, then AT&T is probably the company that has the most to lose.

It doesn�t matter what occurs, he said, Apple is still going to win big.

Forrester and IDC analysts agreed with him, saying that now Apple had another channel to sell the iPhone and that the deal will help Apple fight the increasing influence of Android.

Other research sent this week by ChangeWave reported that 16 percent of AT&T users and 26 percent of iPhone customers may choose to move to Verizon from Verizon.