You may remember a previous post on mobile apps and mobile websites which explored the necessity to build apps for different operation platforms (android, apple, blackberry and so on). Whilst I am still a firm believer in the fact that other phones will slowly eat into the iPhone’s market share, there is no denying the unbelievable appeal of the iPhone (especially with the release of the iPhone 4 tomorrow at 8am).

In fact, a statistic (posted on  NMA online and taken from ComScore) today stated that: “The number of European iPhone users rose 161% to 10m users in the year to April, accounting for 18% of all smartphone users”.

However, it seems as though the Android is slowly starting to catch up…

ComScore also indicated that the number of people with smartphones using Google’s Android operating system is rising at an even faster rate. The number of Android users rose 2,429% to 1.8m in Europe between April 2009 and April 2010.

And to finish, some words from Jeremy Copp, European VP of mobile at ComScore,  “Google’s Android is most certainly the one to watch. It has gained about 1.7m users in a very short period of time and now accounts for 3% of the European smartphone market.”