More than half of the Android phones in the UK are
from HTC, according to the latest ComScore data, with HTC pushing Samsung into a distant second place. The Taiwanese smartphone
maker HTC has increased its share of the British smartphone market to 20n percent.HTC takes the first place with a whopping 50.9 per cent of
the market, with Samsung on 21.6 per cent.
Top 3 Handset Marketshare in United Kingdom
- HTC is no 1 with 50.9% marketshare
- Samsung is a distant no 2 , and trails HTC by two times with 21.6% marketshare
- Sony Ericsson is no 3 at 14.2%
- LG has a 3.5%
- Motorola 2.1%
Those above figures suggest that HTC has provided in excess of 3.2 million handsets in the UK, with Samsung on around 1.3 million and Sony Ericsson on 894,000. and LG with around 220,000 and Moto on slightly over 132,000.
However in other EU Countries, France has Samsung holding top spot with 42.3 per cent of its market, and the Korean company is also top in Italy, Germany and Spain.
Almost 20 million Android handsets are being used
in those countries (UK, Spain, France, Italy Germany), with the UK the biggest
market with 6.3 million users.
HTC's market share in Britain was 15 percent in the first quarter, up from 7 percent a year earlier, according to research firm IDC.
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