Analyst ComScore has released yet more data about the breakdown of today’s smartphone scene, revealing that 42% of all mobile phones in use within the UK were smartphones as of May of this year.
Apple is in the lead, though, according to the analyst, with a 27.1% share of the smart market, followed by Android on 26.7% and Symbian devices back on 22.5%. Here’s a chart confirming that and revealing a shocking 32% DROP for Microsoft:
What’s even more exciting is the speed of Android’s growth – it’s added 4.7 million new users in the UK over the past year, a staggering 634% increase in the space of 12 months.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
MarkG
/ July 23, 2011Interesting I would have guessed Android would have been higher. I know 4x as many Android owners than iOS owners. but then I work in the tech sector.
Mathew
/ July 23, 2011I know a couple of people who are actually changing from an iPhone to an android phone. Actually they’ve both gone for the Samsung Galaxy S2, I wonder why…
Adriasil
/ July 23, 2011Frankly, I’d rather have a HTC over a Samsung any day of the week. And I’d probably have any recent Android over an iPhone.