Apr 06
Report: Android Rises, Microsoft and Palm Sink
Posted in: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, nokia, palm, Smart Devices, Smartphones, Today's Chili, webos, Windows Mobile, windows phone 7
Market research firm comScore has released new share numbers for the major smartphone platforms–and they’re pretty telling.
During the three month period from November 2009 to February 2010, Android rocketed from 3.8 percent to 9.0 percent of the U.S. market for smartphones.
However, that didn’t come at the expense of U.S. leader RIM (up from 40.8 to 42.1) or the second place Apple (treading water at 25.4 percent). Instead, Android’s gains came straight from Microsoft, down from 19.1 to 15.1 percent, and Palm, which fell from 7.2 to 5.4 percent even counting webOS devices.
Overall, 45.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones in an average month, up 21 percent from the same period last year.
As for overall handset brands, Motorola, LG, and Samsung are in a rough three-way tie at 22.3, 21.7, and 21.4 percent, respectively. Nokia and RIM are in a distant fourth and fifth, with 8.7 and 8.2 percent. (RIM’s number here is much lower when considered against the entire cell phone industry, as RIM only makes smartphones.)
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