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New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, Apple’s iOS, who only have 28 per cent.
New research has revealed that the UK is feeling the Google Android love, with the OS running on over half of all smartphones sold – a hefty 100% increase in market share from a year ago.
It may have been their high end Windows Phone handsets that were grabbing the attention at Nokia World in London yesterday, but Nokia also took the wraps off their affordable Asha handsets, all running the Series 40 mobile OS.
It was pretty much inevitable, but now it’s been confirmed: smartphones are officially out-shipping feature phones in Europe.
A study by stat-juggling spods comScore has found that Google Android remains on an unstoppable trajectory in the States, with their smartphone market share reaching 41.8 per cent – a huge rise from the 36.4 per cent share it held in April this year.
Free app distributor GetJar has responded angrily to Apple after lawyers for the tech giant sent them a ‘cease and desist letter‘ over their use of the term ‘app store.’
Head honcho Patrick (Mad) Mork let rip in a blog post, insisting that Apple claiming ownership of the term ‘app store’ was – in his words – ”taking the piss.” Way to go Partick!
After a long and seemingly inevitable decline, it looks like the long-reigning, global smartphone champs Nokia are finally set to be unseated by upstarts Samsung.
We have to admit that we’re finding it pretty difficult to get worked up over any Nokia phone these days, but the company are still ploughing on with the release of two new Symbian-powered smartphones, the E6 and the X7.
We posted earlier today about how Android has taken over the UK smartphone market, and new figures reveal that it’s a familiar story across the pond, with Google’s mobile OS taking over from BlackBerry as the top US smartphone platform.
The latest UK market share figures for smartphone operating systems show Google’s Android OS continuing to surge ahead as the dominant platform, firmly trouncing rivals Apple and Blackberry.
It’s been on the cards for some time, but it’s now been officially confirmed: Android is now the popular mobile OS on the planet.
First surfacing back in November, there’s still been no official conformation of the new Nokia X7 smartphone, although some official looking photos have emerged, displaying AT&T branding.
New figures from IDC’s European phone tracker suggests that Symbian’s long reign as the most popular smartphone OS is about to come to an end as the all conquering Android OS marches on.
The rise of the robots continues unabated in the States, with new figures putting Google’s Android OS as the number one operating system for smartphones.
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