Analyst Kantar Worldpanel has released its latest numbers concerning the UK smartphone scene, estimating the various quantities of phones sold in the three-month period to the end of February 2013. Its numbers claim Android-powered phones accounted for 58.3% of all smartphone sales in the last quarter, up from 48.3% this time last year. iOS devices took 20% of the market, with Windows Phone up to 6.7% from just 3% last year.
Smartphone PENETRATION now sees 63% of the entire mobile market using a phone deemed smart, while 83% of all phones sold in the quarter were of the smart variety. Samsung’s the individual winner, taking 36.2% of the entire smartphone market with its enormous Galaxy range.
Meanwhile, LG’s Nexus 4 has also been a big winner. Kantar says the latest Nexus has overcome its patchy start to take 4.3% of all smartphone sales during the last quarter, after LG and Google managed to sort out the stock woes that saw the initial launch descend into travesty.
Read the full thing over at Kantar.
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