Android takes top spot in UK and US

By
published

The smartphone market is led by Android smartphones on both sides of the Atlantic for the first time

Samsung leads the way for Android handsets in the US

Smartphones using the Android operating software are now, for the first time, the most popular in the UK and the USA.

Helped by the sheer weight of handsets using Android – compared to the solitary iPhone for iOS, for example – the OS now makes up 28% of the smartphone market in the UK.

This equates to more than 4 million people (over the age of 18) who now own an Android handset.

According to research by Intelligent Environments, Apple's iOS aka the iPhone now makes up 26% of the smartphone market, while Blackberry takes up 14%.

Meanwhile, Google's Android grew to a 33% market share in the US, taking the top smarphone OS spot for the first time, ahead of Blackberry on 29%.

Apple's iOS came in third Stateside, inching up to around 25% market share.

Samsung led the way when it came to making the handsets, with Comscore's research in the US finding the company with a 25% market share, ahead of LG (21%), Motorola (16%), RIM (9%) and Apple (7.5%).

Follow whathifi.com on Twitter.
Join us on Facebook.

Joe Cox
Joe Cox
Content Director

Joe is the Content Director for What Hi-Fi? and Future’s Product Testing, having previously been the Global Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-Fi?. He has worked on What Hi-Fi? across the print magazine and website for almost 20 years, writing news, reviews and features on everything from turntables to TVs, headphones to hi-fi separates. He has covered product launch events across the world, from Apple to Technics, Sony and Samsung; reported from CES, the Bristol Show, and Munich High End for many years; and written for sites such as the BBC, Stuff, and the Guardian. In his spare time, he enjoys expanding his vinyl collection and cycling (not at the same time).