Android's popularity is growing, but in Europe is still dominated by Symbian

Research firm IDC conducted a market analysis of operating systems for mobile phones, reports Reuters. While there has been a marked increase in the number of devices running Android, in Western Europe, the key for the operating system market, how to take a strong position to continue to fail. Although compared with the period from July to September, the share increased from 4,2% to 5,4%, it is still very small compared to Symbian, which is not less than 48% of the market.

This situation is partly due to some shortcoming of models based on Android, but also yield a number of phones from LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and other manufacturers will not change the situation dramatically. According to the IDC, the situation is complicated by the fact that despite the popularity of the brand among users of Google, they have no understanding of what is Android. In this regard, users are buying fewer phones than expected - they have no incentive to change the usual OS. In addition, some impact shortage of applications for this operating system, since very few large developers decided to invest in Android-projects.