ComScore released its latest MobiLens report which mirrors what Wireless an Mobile News reported in our top ten best smartphone analysis. The report shows the top makers, platforms and content usage.
Samsung remained as the top cell phone maker with 25.6% of mobile subscribes, followed by LG( 20.5%), Motorola (13.7%), Apple(11.2%) and BlackBerry (6.15%). For the three-month average period ending in November, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile device.
Samsung's success of selling 300 million handsets for the first time, is attributed to technology innovation and the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Samsung Galaxy Note.91.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in November. The top OS was Android with 43.8%, followed by Apple(28.7%), RIM (16.6%), Microsoft (5.7%) and Symbian (1.8%).
In November, 72.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, up 2.1 percentage points.
Downloaded applications were used by 44.9 percent of subscribers (up 3.3 percentage points), while browsers were used by 44.4 percent (up 2.3 percentage points).
Accessing of social networking sites or blogs increased 2.1 percentage points to 33.0 percent of mobile subscribers. Game-playing was done by 29.7 percent of the mobile audience (up 1.2 percentage points), while 21.7 percent listened to music on their phones (up 1.0 percentage points).