Android Trends in Pakistan
Google’s Android, the Linux-based OS for smartphones has been gaining immense popularity in the mobile market. It has receiving signiicant attention from customers in Pakistan’ growing mobile market.
In terms of mobile phones users Pakistani ranks 8th worldwide and 5th in Asia. In a world having 5.6 billion mobile phones users, China tops the ranking by having the maximum number of mobile phone users followes by India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, Japan and Pakistan.
Nearly 67% of the Pakistani’s population uses mobile phones and 23% of them own Smartphone. Although the overall share of Smartphones is comparatively lower, it is reckoned to increase significantly.
Android penetration in Pakistan can be observed from the fact that Pakistan Air Force (PAF) manufactured and introduced Android Tablet, PACPAD.
In Pakistan, all sorts of latest Android phones are available in the market including the most popular sets ranked by PC World i.e Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC One X, Rezound, T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slid, Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX and Samsung Epic Touch 4G.
In App Market, most downloaded Android app in Pakisyan are iQuran, CamScanner, Advance TaskKiller, AccuWeather and Barcode Scanner.
