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iPhone 3 times more popular than Android

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BANGALORE,INDIA: According to a new report by Nielsen Company, an analyst outfit, iPhone is three times more popular than the Android operating system.

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Nelison said that both of the operating systems are increasing their marketshare as mobile users seek to get more from their handsets and make the jump to smartphones.

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According to Nielsen's data, 23 per cent of mobile phone users have a smartphone, a gain of seven per cent over the 16 per cent reported in the second quarter of last year. Of course in those twelve months we have seen the new iPhone 3GS and more Android phones than you can shake a stick at, which might go some way to explain the increases.

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Don Kellogg, senior manager in the research and insights for telecom practice at Nielsen said that both Android and the iphone OS have seen their marketshares grow in the last few months by just around two per cent, while others such as the Blackberry OS and Windows Mobile have seen theirs drop by two per cent.

Nielsen looked closer at phone users and found that Android smartphones and the iPhone are most popular among young men. Android users show a 54 to 46 per cent gender split compared to the iPhone's 55 to 45 per cent, it said, while Kellogg added that Iphone users are likely to be richer and better educated than Android users, but only marginally so.

Users of smartphone operating systems might be more loyal too. Eighty per cent of Iphone users plan to stick with the handset the next time upgrades are rolled out, while 70 per cent of Android users will also replace like for like. In contrast, only 47 per cent of Blackberry users want another Blackberry and only 34 per cent of Windows Mobile want another one of the Vole's phones.

Overall, the Blackberry OS is the most popular of the smartphone brands, with 34 per cent marketshare, while the Iphone has 28 per cent, Windows Mobile 19 per cent, and the upstart Android nine per cent.

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