The U.S. government recently decided to sue to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile, saying that any way you look at it, it is an anti-competitive deal. I totally agree. AT&T, however, does not, and is doing everything in its power to make sure this thing goes through. Obnoxious, much?

Nielsen just released the latest statistics on smartphone usage in the United States. Slowly but surely, smartphones continue to take over the entire mobile phone industry. As of July 2011, 40 percent of all mobile phones in use are smartphones.

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Not much has changed in the US mobile market over the past few months: Android is still the leader — accounting for 40 percent of the total smartphone market — and consumers’ desire for the Google OS doesn’t appear to be slowing down, reports research firm Nielsen.

Last year Nielsen predicted that by the end of 2011, smartphones will overtake feature phones in market share in the U.S.

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Smartphones will represent around 54.5 percent of the mobile phone market by 2015, according to a study from research firm, IHS (formerly iSuppli.) They are forecasting global smartphone shipments of 1.03 billion in 2015 vs 478 million smartphones shipped in 2011. At present, smartphones have about  32.5 percent share of the market.