Half of British smartphones Android-based
ANDROID now accounts for more than half of Great Britain’s smartphones as the dominion of Nokia and BlackBerry continue to wane.
Android, the operating system behind Samsung and HTC smartphones, has climbed to a 50.1 per cent share of the market compared to 44.6 per cent a year ago, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
In the 12 week period to mid-April, Nokia’s Symbian-based smartphones and RIM’s BlackBerry continued their downward spiral, falling 9.1 per cent and 7.2 per cent respectively.
Symbian now holds just 1.6 per cent of the GB smartphone market, and suffered drops of between 10 and 37 per cent in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
And iOS, the operating system behind Apple’s iPhones, was quick to pick up the straying customers, gaining 11.4 percentage points in Great Britain to a 30 per cent share.
While Android surrendered some of its market share in the US to iOS, the Google operating system remained top of the league with 47.6 per cent of American smartphones.
The green robot continued to rein in the European market, gaining 27.2 percentage points to 61.8 per cent of Germany and climbing 39.5 notches to 72.3 per cent of the Spanish smartphone market.