The dual core Samsung Galaxy S II continues to be Britain’s most popular smartphone, once again outselling the Apple iPhone 4, according to new figures from uSwitch Mobile Tracker.
Those kerrrazy, stat-loving types at comScore have just come from a fun-packed totting-up session to reveal a party pack of facts about the growth of smartphones in the US.
We’ve long been spreading the cut price love for Orange’s long reigning Budget Belle, the ultra cheap San Francisco, and the network looks set to unleash another bargain Android handset in the shape of the Monte Carlo.
The price of smartphones keep crashing down, and there’s some incredible deals being offered on phones offering the kind of specs that would have seemed high end a year or two ago.
There’s never been a better time to buy an Android smartphone than now, with a slew of very tasty devices coming to market, with the big hitters including the Motorola Atrix 4G, LG Optimus 2x, HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II.
Although there’s not a bad phone out of that bunch, we’re finding ourselves drawn to the Samsung and the Sensation smartphones. So how do they shape up in a head to head spec slapdown?
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.
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.
Android’s explosive growth continues apace, with Google’s Andy Rubin announcing via Twitter that the company is seeing no less than 300,000 Android phones being activated every day.
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.
Android is still proving to be a hot potato in the States, gaining on all the major smartphone platforms, with their market share soaring from 9 per cent of all U.S. smartphone users in February up to 13 percent in May.
Nokia’s latest Symbian S40 smartphone has just arrived onstage after a lengthy drum roll, so say hello to the entry-level C3.
Accompanied by a flurry of flapping flipcharts and clicking ballpoint pens, tech stat fiends Gartner have just unleashed their annual figures for worldwide mobile phone sales to end users.
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