comScore released their MobiLens for the first quarter of this year.
The report shows Samsug as the top handset-maker folowed by Motorola, LG, RIM and Nokia.
Verizon was the top carrier folowed by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Tracfone.
Text messaging was the top form mobile content, followed by web, apps, games and social networking.
In March, 234 million Americans were mobile subscribers,. Samsung ranked
as the top OEM at a 21.9 percent share of U.S. mobile subscribers,
inching out Motorola by a fraction of a percent. LG (21.8 percent share)
ranked closely behind them, with RIM (8.3 percent share) and Nokia (8.3
percent share) rounding out the top five.
The top mobile operators in the U.S. during the 3 month
average ending in March, had Verizon led the market with 31.1 percent of
mobile subscribers. AT&T ranked second with 25.2 percent market
share, up 0.2 percentage points from the period ending December 2009.
Sprint narrowly grabbed the #3 position with 12.0 percent market share,
closely trailed by T-Mobile (12.0 percent), while Tracfone gained 0.3
points to capture 5.1 percent of the market.
In an average month during the January through March
2010 time period, 63.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text
messaging on their mobile device, up 0.6 percentage points versus three
months prior. Browsers were used by 30.1 percent of U.S. mobile
subscribers (up 2.6 percentage points), while subscribers who used
downloaded applications made up 28.6 percent of the mobile audience (up
2.6 percentage points). Access of social networking sites or blogs
continued to increase, posting gains of 2.8 percentage points to 18.7
percent of mobile subscribers.