The mobile research firm revealed that 320,000 smartphone and tablet users in six countries participated in the poll. In the U.S Motorola Atrix HD came in at first followed by Motorola Droid Razr, HTC Rezound 4G, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and then iPhone 5.

Sarah Quinn, marketing manager for OnDevice Research commented on the report and said, “although Apple created one of the most revolutionary devices of the past decade, other manufactures have caught up, with some Android powered devices now commanding higher levels of user satisfaction,”.

In the UK Apple comparatively did better where HTC One X came first, iPhone 5 second followed by Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini and Samsung Galaxy S3.

Perhaps the most interesting result of the poll was that among the rankings for overall mobile device satisfaction Apple came in first followed by Google, Motorola, HTC, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and then Samsung. The survey reached out to mobile users in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, and Indonesia and was conducted via the mobile Web.

The report does give an interesting perspective of users satisfaction however, it’s unclear how a device can rank low while the company selling the device rank higher in overall satisfaction.

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Samsung put the hype machine in overdrive after announcing ‘something big’ is on the way on a Samsung website. Showing a picture of a Galaxy S beside a mystery device, Samsung added the words ‘evolution is fate’ for that added drama.

Expected to run Android 2.3 and possibly powered by Samsung’s new Cotex A9-based Orion, the mysterious device is the subject of much speculation. Does the word ‘evolution’ refer to the final latter in the acronym LTE? Possibly, and with CES bring full of devices complete with LTE radios it wouldn’t be a huge surprise.

Other potential additions are an 8 megapixel camera, LCD flash and Super AMOLED display according to Macworld.

Keep an eye out for Samsung’s unveiling on February 13 – days before Mobile World Congress kicks off.

Is this going to be a spruced up Nexus S? Watch this space.

In testing the 5 handsets, of which the Samsung Galaxy S was one, DisplayMate found the iPhone 4 to have the best overall display, although it was under-saturated and at times displayed too much contrast. DisplayMate found iPhone’s Retina Display to be “ … the sharpest smartphone display available”.

The Galaxy S, using the latest AMOLED technology was better at producing blacks but was considerably dimmer and was also over-saturated.

Bottom of the pile was the iPhone 3GS, who’s screen hasn’t really changed since the release of the original iPhone in 2007.

The technically minded can read the fill report at displaymate.com.