Android smartphone sales will outpace sales of iPhone in 2012, market researcher Information Telecommunication and Media forecasts a new report.

Last month, Telefonica Europe, said that iPhone sales have exceeded 1 million people in the UK, while T-Mobile UK - the exclusive carrier of the first Android device, G1 - wouldn’t say exactly how many devices have been sold, he said the phones at the present time accounted for 20 percent of its sales contract.

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Web behemoth Google has released the first beta developer kit for its Android operating system an open platform in August, with the first mobile phone - smartphone G1 - beginning next month. The second phone, Magic, is expected to arrive next month.

Apple in the iPhone is little more than a legacy - the first device coming to U.S. in June 2007. Nevertheless, iPhone 3G hits stores this July, giving him only a few months head start its competitor Google.

Like Android OS X are the power in the market share of the most popular smartphone operating system Maker, Symbian. In the past year, slightly less than half of the sales of smartphones based on Symbian - a decrease of 16 percentage points a year, when 65 per cent market share. BlackBerry OS, Linux and Windows Mobile are also becoming popular, and eat some Symbian share, according to details.

Nevertheless, in London, believes the attention of Symbian in the switch from open-source Symbian will enable the Fund to retain its leadership over the Android, Linux, Microsoft, and over the next few years.

Nearly 162 million smartphones were sold last year, surpassing the sales of notebook PCs for the first time, according to details. Market researcher predicts that smartphone penetration will be 13.5 percent of new phones sold this year and that this figure will reach 38 percent by 2013.

Information also suggests that smartphone sales will be immune from the global economic downturn, the persistence forecast “growth” of 35.3 percent per year after year.

Total sales of phones, however, will not be as sustainable and are set to fall 10.1 percent in one year to the project details.