#4 Spain

Smartphone users – 30 per cent of total mobile phone users

Total number of Smartphone Users – 18 million

Spain ranks first in a European survey on the use of Smartphones. Although Spain is leading in the percentages of Smartphone use, the activity analysis shows that UK is the European country with the highest rates of use except in one field, music reproduction.

Cheaper Smartphones are likely to be on show as device makers look to new markets in the developing world to expand their presence. Powering these handsets will be new cheaper operating systems on show from the likes of Firefox and Ubuntu.

#3 The United States

Smartphone users – 48 per cent of total mobile phone users

Total number of Smartphone Users – 172 million

Nielsen report shows that 54.9% of U.S. mobile phone owners have a Smartphone as of Q2 2012 and a comScore estimate states that Smartphone ownership in the U.S. reached 110 million by May 2012. U.S. Smartphone buyers shunned Android during December last year, buying only 0.45m more handsets while Apple added 3.21m new iPhone users, according to new data from ComScore. In the country Android and iOs have been head to head in the race ever since the green robot stepped into the scene.

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