comScore has released a study of the smartphone market in Europe showing that smartphone adoption in the EU5 (UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy) has grown 32 percent versus a year ago to 51.6 million subscribers. The UK market strongly leads in growth of smartphone adoption over the past year, growing 70 percent to more than 11 million subscribers. France ranks second in growth with the number of smartphone subscribers up 48 percent to 7 million. Meanwhile, Italy boasts the largest number of smartphone subscribers overall (15 million) but showed the softest growth in this market at 11 percent.