A survey carried out recently among 2,001 people in the United Kingdom revealed that 28 per cent of the respondents currently owned mobile phones functioning on the Android operating system. This makes Android the prominent operating system in the country even ahead of the iPhone of Apple.

However it is noteworthy that Apple was not trailing far behind with 26 per cent of the respondents claiming to being owning its smartphones. The research also showed that the customers that used Blackberry stood at 14 per cent and that using the Symbian smartphones stood at 6 per cent. The ratio of the users of Microsoft smartphones were 5 per cent.

Although the results of the research are in they raise a few questions with the study. The main one is that the target people of 2,001 of the research were hardly sufficient to estimate the larger scenary of the United Kingdom in terms of smartphone use.

Then the research in another way reflects the combat between the operating system super powers Android and Apple. In the comparison table one can find that more than a hundred smartphones have Android as their platform against the few iPhone handsets of Apple. This points to the possibility that there may be more users of Android handsets, eventhough the research has only given the difference as 2 per cent.