Share of equipment sold nudges 50%, but analysts said it could reach a ceiling - for all Windows Phone Nokia devices starting to make inroads

Android is back on the cruise control at the top of the smartphone market in the UK, after a surge in sales of Apple iPhone 4S dented his lead over Christmas.

New figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech covering the 12 weeks to 19 February 2012 that Android phones made up 48.5% of smartphones sold, as the proportion of smartphones combination of all mobile phone sales increased to 73.2%.

However, the smartphone industry is in turmoil, with the company's data show that over half (51.6%) of people who bought a smartphone in this period and had a - at least half were purchased by phone users download feature of the new platform. In addition, switching between platforms like Android, BlackBerry-maker RIM, Symbian, and Apple IOS is common: more than half (54.1%) of smartphone owners who bought a new platform changed.

who passed away from Symbian, Nokia, either Android or IOS. RIM is also seeing an output of farmers who are changing the same two platforms. Among those who update the phones features, the largest flow is Android, with roughly equal changes in IOS and RIM.

But Sunday, the Director of Global Consumer Insights ComTech Kantar said that Android may have peaked. "We saw you run around the mark of 45% -50% for months, but there is no sign that goes on it," he told the Guardian.

He thinks the easy prey to have previous smartphone owners who have left the platform of Nokia Symbian - "has virtually disappeared from the market" - means that in the future, the fight hand market being much more competitive.

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sales, after rising 34% in 12 weeks to 26 December 2011, fell to 28.7% - even if it is greater than 22.7% did so during the same period in 2011, when both Android platform and BlackBerry RIM were ahead.

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increased slightly compared to 12 weeks of December, from 16.1% to 17.1%.

Together, the three platforms constituted 94.3% of smartphone sales. The figures do not include sales to businesses, and therefore probably underestimate the sales of RIM, said Sunnebo. Overall, the company estimates that 51.3% of the UK population now has a smart phone.

Customers using smartphones expressed greater satisfaction with their devices than phones that use films, according to the panel. In the range of 0 to 10 (10 being the highest score) mean smartphone users was 7.9, against 6.9 for mobile films.

Brands, Apple has had the satisfaction rate highest, at 8.8, followed by Samsung - which makes mostly Android, but also Windows and mobile phone with 8.0-Bada. HTC makes Android devices and Windows Phone was third with 7.6. When people were asked if they would keep the same brand when you upgrade, Apple ranks first, followed by Samsung and HTC, the survey found.