Android phones have overtaken the iPhone to become the most popular smartphone in Britain.
In a YouGov poll of 2,000 adults for Intelligent Environments, 28 per cent of smartphone users owned an Android, with 26 per cent using an iPhone and 14 per cent a BlackBerry. More than four million British people over 18 years old own an Android and it is popular with both young professionals and older people.
Apple’s operating system is still currently dominant on tablets, however, with the iPad accounting for the vast majority of tablets sold so far. Android is set to mount a new challenge there, too, with the launch of a new range of tablets based on the ‘Honeycomb’ version of Android.