According to ComScore – Internet market research company, Google’s Adriod OS is eating in to Microsoft and Apple’s mobile market share, with about 9% growth in the last three months itself. While, overall smartphone users have grown to about 21%.

The growth was largely fuelled by the $100 million marketing campaign, which allowed verizon to sell thousands of Motorola Droids during the holidays. While, RIM (Research In Motion), the company behind BlackBerry, managed only a 1.3 percent increase in its smartphone share, while apple say a 0.1 percent drop in market share.

The growth of android is also be touted due to the increased interest in application development for the platform, which unlike Apple’s App Store is less restricting.

To a luck few Apple will give a sneak preview of the iPhone OS 4.0 on April 8th, while the update is only slated for release later this year, the rumor mills are already churning on the possible features this update will carry.

Multi-tasking being the heavily bet upon feature, but we’ll just have to wait and see if apples fan’s lucky this time round. Apple has been avoiding the multi-tasking feature since the launch of the iPhone, citing concerns on decrease in performance  with multiple apps running in the background, the major issue that has bugged windows mobile version for years . If you have been following the timeline of the iPhone, the company avoided the copy-paste feature for more than a year before rolling it out, and has showed absolutely no interest in integrating Flash, apart from the initial talk with Adobe.

For now, it’s just wait and see