According to a mobile analytics firm called Flurry, British smartphone users are the most enthusiastic in Europe when it comes to using applications, reporting that 17.2 million of us have accessed an app last month alone.  This is compared to 10.7 million French users and 9.6 million German.
To determine this figure, Flurry logged data from more than 85,000 mobile applications.  Other results showed that there has been a ten per cent growth in the number of European smartphone users, with that number reaching 46 million active smartphone users as of May.
The most popular type of application according to the study is gaming apps, with more than 35 per cent of all application use devoted to gaming.  Next in popularity are social networking applications such as Twitter and Facebook, constituting 25 per cent of smartphone application use.  This is followed by sports and entertainment applications at 17 per cent and news at five per cent.
Flurry also goes on to say that it expected the number of active smartphone users to more than double over the coming year, rising to as high as 92 million users.
In other analyst news, IAB UK has reported that shopping via a smartphone is becoming common practice for British smartphone owners, with many of our favourite retailers incorporating mobile commerce into their business.  A survey of over 1,100 smartphone owners found that 27 per cent of smartphone owners have already purchased items via mobile and 48 per cent have plans to do so over the next 12 months.