Nielsen’s latest numbers finds Android maintaining the pole position in the U.S smartphone market garnering a 36% share followed by Apple iOS (26%) and RIM Blackberry OS (23%). Another interesting finding from their study is that Android users are the most data hungry, consuming 582MB/month on an average.

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Industry group, MobileFuture, captures key data of the mobile industry for 2010 and reflects on the year that was. This near 3 minute video encapsulates data points on mobile apps, location based services, data traffic among other things. They go on to declare 2010 as the ‘year that connected the world’. Check out the video embed below.

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Network technology specialists, Arieso studied the impact of data usage by smartphones on mobile networks and finds that Android users are the most data hungry. The study used iPhone 3G as the benchmark and states that newer smartphones generate downlink data volumes about 40% higher and uplink volumes around 130% more than iPhone 3G. Android users, they say make more calls, and spend more time connected to mobile networks and consume more data than iPhone 3G upwards.

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A new research from Informa Telecoms & Media indicates that the Global Value Added Services (VAS) market would grow from $200B in 2009 to $340B in 2014. Emerging markets like Indonesia, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Poland and the Ukraine and would contribute 36% of the global mobile data revenues by 2014. Informa says that as growth levels are hitting saturation points in the developed economies, emerging economies would see a ton of action within the mobile industry owing to its high growth potential.

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Chetan Sharma Consulting’s US Wireless Data Market report released for Q1, 2010 pegs the US Mobile Data Market at $54 Billion for the year. Q1 data revenues clocked at $12.5 Billion and is on track to hit the estimated forecast of $54 Billion by the end of the year, according to Chetan Sharma. They also note that Verizon sneaked past NTT DoCoMo to be the largest mobile data operator globally, from data revenues standpoint.

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