Hasta La Gadget!

Motorola’s Droid is not an iPhone-killer, but it will advance the use and adoption of web content on connected devices, according to Wednesday data from Nielsen.

With only 10,000 applications in the Android Market compared to about 100,000 on iTunes, “the Droid – or any Android phone – won’t be killing the iPhone anytime soon,” Nielsen wrote in a blog post.

However, Android’s integration with popular and widespread Google apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Voice will help with its popularity, as will Android’s ability to run multiple applications, Nielsen said.

“Most users do this on their computers so being able to listen to music while browsing the web and sending email makes a multi-tasking smartphone an appealing option,” the analyst firm concluded.

Nielsen believes that by mid-2011, about 50 percent of all phones sold will be smartphones, or roughly 150 million users.

“This shift could happen much faster with the right conditions such as continued competitive price points on devices, lower ‘all you can eat’ data packages and the increasing consumers need to be connected anytime, anywhere,” they said.

If you purchase an Android phone, Nielsen finds that “you’ll likely use more of the data features more often than if using any other smartphone.”