Some 28 per cent of smart cell phone users owned an Android, with 26 per cent using an iPhone and 14 per cent a BlackBerry, the YouGov poll of 2,000 adults for Intelligent Environments, a digital banking provider, found. More than four million British people over 18 years old own an Android and it is popular with both young professionals and older people.
Android users were most likely to spend time mapping and planning travel — 34% rated this in the top three "apps'' they spent the most time using, compared with BlackBerry and Apple (both 28 per cent).
The research supports suggestions from analysts that Android would edge out all other operating systems as it became available on an increasing number of cheaper devices.
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. The Motorola Xoom, already launched in America, is set to be released soon in the UK, along with the Asus Transformer and a new version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
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