14 DAY TRIAL // Google's mobile operating system, Android, managed to score an impressive growth on the UK market since last year, a recent report from comScore shows.
The research firm notes that Android has secured no less than 26.7 percent market share in the UK back in May 2011, topping Symbian and nearing the first position on the smartphone segment in the country, currently held by iOS.
When compared to the same month a year ago, Android's increase is more than impressive: 634 percent.
A number of more than 4.7 million users chose Google's Android operating system over the past year, pushing the platform up in the charts.
The number of UK users that had a smartphone in May this year was also significantly higher than a year ago, with 42 percent in May 2011, compared to only 27 percent during the same month last year.
“The rising adoption of smartphones in the UK has created a very competitive landscape for the top 3 mobile operating systems, Apple, Google and Symbian,” the research firm notes.
As stated above, Apple's iOS platform was placed on the first position on the market in the UK in May, with 27.1 percent market share, only 0.4 percentage points in front of Android.
Nokia's Symbian platform was placed on the third position during that month, with 22.5 percent of the market. However, since the Finnish giant announced plans to move away from the Symbian OS, it was expected that the platform would lose significant ground.
Android is getting ready to take the lead on the market in the UK, as it does in various other markets around the world as well.
Only about a week ago, Google announced that it was activating 550,000 devices each and every day, and that a number of over 130 million devices were sold since the first Android phone arrived on shelves.
