March 11, 2011

comScore: 42.7 M Own Smartphones

According to comScore, 42.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones in an average month during the November 2010 to January 2011 period, up 18 percent from the August through October period.

RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 43.0 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, rising 1.7 percentage points versus three months earlier.

Apple ranked second with 25.1 percent share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Microsoft at 15.7 percent, Google at 7.1 percent (up 4.3 percentage points), and Palm at 5.7 percent. Google’s Android platform continues to see rapid gains in market share.

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