A few decades ago, the world was recognized for its cultural diversity and regional disparity. Now all that’s left of it is a couple of terms that we use to segment the “world” logic. The first world countries, the second world countries and the third world countries are the kind of wording that’s used by and large these days. All of them are based on technologyl advancement.

Speaking of which, smartphones have played an important role in dividing the entire population. They’re all divided into RIM, Symbian, Apple iOS and the Android OS. The recent series of events have led December to start with a heavy pile of StatCounter web analytics, offering an insight on the current mobile market trend.

Some of the StatCounter surveys suggest that RIM has been gaining popularity as a hyped up platform in the U.S.A. about 34.3% population is hooked to the Blackberry mantra, while the rest of the percentile is roughly divided into Apple, Symbian and Android users. However, RIM’s success was a long time ago.

These days, due to failing contracts with Pentagon and overall less demand factor, the Blackberry manufacturer is pushed in the background. Moving on, we take a look at the rest of the cats in the market.

The funny thing is that the StatCounter surveys are and mostly based on web traffic and not the actual usage of the phones – So there might be a strong possibility of loopholes in their survey results. Anyways, another research company, Pingdom has released its own figures for the smartphone survey. The latter company says that there has been a high demand pattern of the iPod Touch and the iPhone franchise. Both factors indicate the overall usage of the iOS.

The rest of the survey was inclined on the degree of preference that users give to the Android OS. Outside the US, especially in India and Pakistan, Android is not that much common in the latter region.

If you were to walk around the Pakistani smartphone market and ask them about their take on Android, they’ll just retort with a hollow psychotic look. Nokia (and Samsung) is what they all talk about. It means that the Symbian OS is high in demand in that region.

Android is more famous in the US, the UK and other countries that have a direct access to this commodity.