More stats attesting to growing power of Google OS.
Figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech show that Android is now top in the UK (38 per cent), France (35.9 per cent) and Germany (35.5 per cent).
It's also at 58.3 per cent in Japan and 54.7 per cent in the US.
However, away from Android, there are significant differences in smartphone platform shares.
In the UK, BlackBerry is responsible for nearly 25 per cent of all smartphone sales because of consumer crossover, while in Germany its market share is just 3.4 per cent.
However Symbian still bags a quarter of all sales in Germany, and In Italy its continues to be the leading OS with a 46.9 per cent market share.
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Kantar Worldpanel ComTech believes the iPhone will claw back share from Android in the US because of the recent deal to make it available on Verizon, for which it bagged 30.1 per cent of all phone sales in March.
Last week, Gartner predicted that Google-powered phones will account for nearly half of the 630 million handsets to be sold in 2012.
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