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Sony overtakes HTC and is now the second Android maker in the UK

Categories: Android, Sony
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at 11:56 PM

According to the UK smartphone sales data from Mobile Today, Sony has overtaken HTC to become the second Android phone company in the country. It is said that the Japanese giant has moved half a million phones over the summer, which is more than HTC’s 440,000 units. Samsung is still far ahead, having managed to sell the astonishing 3.2 million Android models in the same period.

Apparently users are more comfortable with buying Sony- rather than HTC-branded products. Moreover, Sony now offers an array of different smartphones, targeting various price points, the fact that probably helped the company move forward. However, we still wait to see Sony’s first smartphone with a quad-core processor and as far as I know, it won’t be available until early 2013.

Now I’m curious – would you get a Sony smartphone over the one made by HTC?

[Via: EuroDroid]

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • http://twitter.com/N471v3 Steevemaster

    sony phones look fancy as frak, with the lighting bar on the bottom and stuff. But HTC make far better GUIs and more solid units, in my opinion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/zfilipu Zdenda Filip?

    go Sony,

  • Walter

    Can’t fault a Sony in any product they make.. This should have happened a long time ago..