Since there are many more Android devices on the market than their competitors handsets, it suggests that the wider choice offered by them is winning customers. This extended choice not only includes mobile phone models but also price and operator – Apple sells one phone, whereas there are many Android phones available, from many manufacturers. Users new to the latest breed of mobile phones are driving this change – 74% of new Android users haven’t previously owned a smartphone.

It’s possible that Apple’s slowing sales are at least partly driven by speculation over the next model. There is still no firm information about iPhone5, despite mounting rumours over specifications and launch dates, but users may be holding out for the next big thing which uses iOS. It’s also important to note that the above headline percentages only show proportion of share rather than the number of handsets actually sold, so iPhone sales may still have improved over last year.

The old retainers like the Symbian OS are understandably struggling in the new climate. In the UK, phones running Nokia’s Symbian software dropped from a third of the market to just 10 per cent. Nokia’s huge global brand of budget phones are massive in the developing world, but over here it’s all about the smart phone, and the recent Nokia N8 which used Symbian is unlikely to make a difference. Nokia’s upcoming Windows phone on the other hand, is likely to revitalize their fortunes in the UK.

Fortunately,  Techcrunch confirmed that later this week to finally arrive at an implementation of Android Market Facebook.

But as it transpired, the Facebook application for Android will not have the same capabilities as the iPhone version. For example, the inbox will not but will check the stream. In summary, will be built around the stream (thanks to the new stream API) and status updates.

Why Facebook decided to change his mind? basically because the amount of devices with Android continues to grow and the end of the year will be enough, so can not be set aside for those users who have more vibe with Google, which also would have “borrowed” an engineer of the team Android because people do not have a Facebook.