The latest quarterly figures from comScore show that Samsung is the top handset manufacturer in the USA with 24.8% market share while Android is the most-popular smartphone platform with 38.1% market share.
Almost a third of Americans now have smartphones, an 11% increase from the previous three-month period.
| Top mobile manufacturers |
| |
Share of mobile subscribers |
| Feb 2011 |
May 2011 |
Point change |
| Total mobile subscribers |
100.0% |
100.0% |
|
| Samsung |
24.8% |
24.8% |
0.0 |
| LG |
20.9% |
21.1% |
0.2 |
| Motorola |
16.1% |
15.1% |
-1.0 |
| Apple |
7.5% |
8.7% |
1.2 |
| RIM |
8.6% |
8.1% |
-0.5 |
| Top smartphone OS platforms |
| |
Share of smartphone subscribers |
| Feb 2011 |
May 2011 |
Point change |
| Total smartphone subscribers |
100.0% |
100.0% |
|
| Google Android |
33.0% |
38.1% |
5.1 |
| Apple iOS |
25.2% |
26.6% |
1.4 |
| RIM (BlackBerry) |
28.9% |
24.7% |
-4.2 |
| Microsoft Windows Phone |
7.7% |
5.8% |
-1.9 |
| Palm webOS |
2.8% |
2.4% |
-0.4 |
[Tables show three-month average Mar/Apr/May 2011 vs Dec/Jan/Feb 2011. Total US mobile subscribers aged 13+]
More than 30,000 US mobile subscribers were surveyed for the comScore MobiLens report.