Google’s Android outsells Apple’s iPhone for first time

Google’s Android operating system sold more than Apple’s iPhone for the first time in quarter one.

Mobile phones that run on Google’s Android system accounted for 28% of the sales in the US smartphone market in the Q1 2010, while iPhone claimed just 21% of the share, according to the NPD Group.

However, both handsets came a fair way behind Blackberry’s impressive 36% share of the market over the three month period.

Google’s G1, which was launched more than a year after the Apple iPhone, has seen a boost in sales since a range of new handsets have been released.

Earlier this year, Google revealed that 60,000 mobile phones with the Android system were being shipped every day.