Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Plus found to be the most widely used smartphone in the world in Q2 2017

Smartphone giants **Samsung** could add another feather to its cap, as the **Galaxy S7** and S7 Edge has been named the world’s most widely used Android device in Q2 2017. The data was released in a report by DeviceAtlas that broke down a number of Android smartphone-related hardware specifications. [caption id=“attachment_4055131” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Samsung Galaxy S7. Reuters[/caption] According to a  report by Android Headlines, the DeviceAtlas data is drawn from “traffic to tens of thousands of sites”. The report also revealed a list of the most used Android chipset vendors and most commonly used RAM amounts among others. **Qualcomm** was found to be the most used chipset vendor, while Samsung’s Exynos, Huawei’s Kirin and MediaTek filled in the numbers. Qualcomm showed its dominance in a number of key smartphone markets including the US, UK and a number of European countries, although Samsung did run a close second in certain markets like Russia, Malaysia and Canada. Among Qualcomm’s wide range of Snapdragon processors, the Snapdragon 410 was found to be the most widely used chipset along with Samsung’s Exynos 7420. There were surpises in the RAM segment though, as despite a trend in increasing RAM across Android smartphone segments, the most commonly used RAM amount was found to be 1 and 2 GB.