ComScore released figures for U.S. mobile phones during the three-month period ending August 2010.
They found Samsung to be the top handset maker overall with 23.6 percent market share followed by LG, Motorola, BlackBerry, and Nokia.
For the leading smartphones, BlackBerry (37.6%) was the top smartphone OS, followed by iPhone, Android, Microsoft and Palm. Text is the top use for cell-phone content and is followed by web browsing and apps.
55.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three
months ending in August, up 14 percent from the May period. RIM was the
leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 37.6 percent share
of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.2 percent
share.
Google continues to gain ground in the market, rising 6.6
percentage points to capture 19.6 percent of smartphone subscribers.
Microsoft accounted for 10.8 percent of smartphone subscribers, while
Palm rounded out the top five with 4.6 percent. Despite losing share to
Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers
as the smartphone market overall continues to grow.
For
the three-month average period ending in August, 234 million Americans
ages 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung
ranked as the top OEM with 23.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, up
1.2 percentage points from the preceding three-month period. LG ranked
second with 21.2 percent share, followed by Motorola (18.8 percent
share), RIM (9.0 percent share, up 0.3 percentage points) and Nokia (7.6
percent share).
In August, nearly 67 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text
messaging on their mobile device, up 1.4 percentage points versus the
prior three-month period, while browsers were used by 34.5 percent of
U.S. mobile subscribers (up 2.6 percentage points). Subscribers who used
downloaded applications comprised 32.3 percent of the mobile audience,
representing an increase of 2.3 percentage points from the previous
period.
Accessing social networking sites or blogs increased 1.7
percentage points, representing 22.5 percent of mobile subscribers,
while listening to music inched 0.4 percentage points, representing 14.7
percent of subscribers.