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14.12.2010 Google gains smartphone share in USA

Driven by Android, Google showed the highest growth among top US smartphone platform providers between July and October 2010, according tonew comScore MobiLens data. While Google Android only took third place in the US smartphone market in the three-month-average ending October 2010 with 23.5% marketshare, this was about a 38% increase from 17% marketshare held in the three-month-average ending July 2010.No other leading US smartphone platform provider experienced anywhere close to that rate of growth in the same time period. Market leader RIM (provider of the Blackberry platform) actually lost about 9% of its share, dropping from 39.3% to 35.8%.

Meanwhile, number two Apple slightly grew its share about 3%, from 23.8% to 24.6%. Number four Microsoft lost almost 18% share, tumbling from 11.8% to 9.7%. Palm came in a distant fifth with 20% share loss, dropping from 4.9% to 3.9%. In total, 60.7 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in October, up 14% from the preceding three-month period, representing one out of every four mobile subscribers.

B.L. 14.12.2010