Nielsen recently reported that the sales for all three top smartphone operating systems were very close. ComScore reported today that Google's Android had taken the lead by .08%. Samsung remained the top cell phone maker at 24.9%, followed by LG (20.8%), Motorola (16.5%), RIM (8.6%) and Apple (7%). 234 million Americans used mobile phones according to the three-month survey ending Jan 2011.
Google's Android OS is now 31.2% of the the U.S. smartphone market, gaining 7.7% since October. BlackBerry lost 5.4% and now accounts for 30.4% of U.S. smartphones. Apple's iOS for iPhone stayed at 24.7%, while Microsoft's Windows Phone lost 1.7 percentage points, ending up with 8% and Palm/HP webOS is 3.2%.
65.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three
months ending in January 2011, an increase of 8 percent from the preceding
three-month period.
In January, 68.1 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, while browsers were used by 37 percent of subscribers (up 0.8 percentage points).
Subscribers who used downloaded applications comprised 35.3 percent of the mobile audience, representing an increase of 1.6 percentage points.
Accessing of social networking sites or blogs increased 1.1 percentage points, representing 25.3 percent of mobile subscribers.
Playing games represented 23.7 percent of the mobile audience, while listening to music represented 16.5 percent (up 1.1 percentage points).