We knew Android was popular, but the latest statistics on UK smartphone ownership are still astounding: according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, almost one in four people in the UK now owns an Android smartphone. That’s right. A quarter.
According to the market research gurus, 43.8 percent of the UK population now own a smartphone, extrapolating from figures for the last 12 weeks. That’s a staggering figure in itself, but within that it found that 49.9 percent of those smartphones ran Google’s Android operating system, while BlackBerry accounted for 22.5 percent, and iPhone 18.5 percent.
Following on from HTC’s blow-out quarterly results today, it comes as less of a surprise to find that HTC cleaned up, selling 44.8 percent of Android devices, and leaving the likes of Samsung and Sony Ericsson to fight it out for leftovers. Mobile Today has the full breakdown at the link below – let us know which side you lie on and whether you’re the one in four in the comments below.
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