Android Outsells iPhone for the First Time

As with all survey findings like this, my reporting will be in two parts: the findings themselves, and then the caveats. Those caveats are important and interesting, so don't skip them--they color, and sometimes negate, the findings.

Nielsen's second-quarter statistics for smartphones are out, and of course it involves the quickly evolving and often bloody fight between Apple's iPhone and the various phones using Google's Android. For the first time, more new purchasers (within the past six...