Android now found on 51% of U.S. smartphones

Android has finally broken the 50% market share hurdle, according to a quarterly report from comScore. Android continued its phenomenal level of growth for the quarter ending in March 2012, climbing 3.7% since the December survey. Android’s growth continues to come at the expense of RIM and Microsoft, who saw declines of 3.7% and 0.8% respectively. Apple’s iOS gained just over 1% to make up 30.7% of the U.S. market.

Android’s biggest challengers in the future will be Microsoft and RIM, who will both release major new platform revisions in the fall. With consumer sentiment increasingly against these companies, however, it appears the smartphone OS market will be a two-trick pony for at least the foreseeable future.

Can Android break 60% in coming months, or do you think we’ll start to see the market plateau after too long? Sound off in the comments.

Restore HTC EVO hboot 3D method found, but not for the timid

Many an EVO 3D user will tell you, the 1.5 hboot who came with the last update a little was a thorn in the side of Android hackers. That could soon come to an end and the users at XDA - developers have found a method to return to an earlier version that is a little more user-friendly. But all is not ' t immediately rosy.

The current method is rather complicated on paper. You use Linux and it ' many critical time s and other things to go wrong. He ' s also a question on the data later for you connection prevent diving in feet first. Give people working on it a little more time and they ' ll probably have a handful of things - that ' s what they do. We just wanted to share the news for those who ' ve been waiting. Hit the link source for details.

Source: XDA-Developers. Thank you, Cody!