Analyst Kantar Worldpanel has updated its data for the UK smartphone market, revealing that Android has tightened its grip on our pockets. When Kantar last reported data back in June, Android had 44.9% of the UK smartphone scene – that’s now up to 47.1%. During the same period of 2010, Android had only 22% of the UK smartphone market.
The new data, which covers the 12-week period ending August 7th, shows that Apple’s iOS has fallen year-on-year – from 28% down to just under 21%. Here’s an Android phone enjoying a well-earned celebratory drink:
You can probably guess what’s happened to Symbian’s market share, too – it’s down from holding 26.3% of the smartphone market in 2010 to only 7.2% right now. Windows Phone 7, meanwhile, continues to barely even exist at all despite the best efforts of Microsoft and the handset makers – it has a tiny 1.7% of the UK smartphone market.
Link via Mobile Today.
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
/ September 5, 2011Whats a Windows Phone 7?
Is that the thing that nobody owns, nobody wants and the only people talking about it online, are those that are on Microsoft’s employee books…
David
/ September 5, 2011Some links for you to educate yourself:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-gb/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone
http://www.engadget.com/product/windows-phone-7-series
MarkG
/ September 5, 2011As I thought the OS that nobody wants and nobody likes.
Dan
/ September 5, 2011These market share figures can be confusing as they all seem to measure different things. Presumably this is measuring only new handset sales rather than ownership (which the #2 related post linked here says is 26.7%)?
flibblesan
/ September 5, 2011Love the Huawei U8800 flat drunk on the floor, and another looking rather tipsy.