12 MOST UNSAFE CELLPHONES

Android can boast its strength in numbers since topping their Apple competitors in smartphone sales back in March, but a recent study is bound to serve up the OS developers with a little humility.

The 'Dirty Dozen' list of the market's most unsafe smartphones consists solely of Android models. Researchers at Bit9 have convicted 12 such devices of posing the highest privacy and security risks to its users.

Here's how the troubled Android models stack up:

1. Samsung Galaxy Mini

2. HTC Desire

3. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

4. Sanyo Zio

5. HTC Wildfire

6. Samsung Epic 4G

7. LG Optimus S

8. Samsung Galaxy S

9. Motorola Droid X

10. LG Optimus One

11. Motorola Droid 2

12. HTC Evo 4

The study weighs three major factors that pertain to smartphone safety: market share, out-of-date software and the time it takes to receive updates. Despite a dominating market presence, Android's struggle with the latter two seemed to shock the researchers just as much as it's sure to astonish the millions of Android users.