According to comScore, 60.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in October, up 14 percent from the preceding three month period. This represents one out of every four mobile subscribers.
RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 35.8 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.6 percent share (up 0.8 percentage points).
Google Android saw another month of strong growth, rising 6.5 percentage points to capture 23.5 percent of smartphone subscribers.
Despite losing share to Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow.
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