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The battle for smartphone operating system supremacy is quicklybecoming a two-horse race, as the latest data from comScore showsthat only Apple and Google were able to grow their market share inthe U.S. through January. The research firm's latest U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Sharereport for January 2012 was issued this week , revealing that Apple's iOS gained 1.4 percent market sharebetween October of 2011 and January of 2012.
That put Apple insecond place, behind Google's Android which grew its U.S. marketshare 2.3 percentage points in the same period. Android, which is available on all domestic carriers with a widerange of handsets from multiple manufacturers, controls 48.5percent of the market. Apple's lineup of three iPhone models put itin second place with 29.5 percent of the market. In third was Research in Motion, which saw its market share drop 2points to 15.2 percent.
Microsoft also lost more ground, dropping 1point to 4.4 percent and fourth place. Rounding out the top five was Nokia's Symbian platform, which losta tenth of a point. The Finnish handset maker accounted for 1.5percent of total U.S. smartphone subscribers ages 13 and up in thethree-month period ending in January.
The number of U.S. smartphone subscribers topped 100 million inJanuary, up 13 percent since October. There are now 101.3 millionsmartphone subscribers in America, comScore said. In terms of total hardware sales, with combined smartphone and"feature" phone sales, Samsung was the leader, accounting for 25.4percent of all devices in use in the three-month period. Apple,which only makes smartphones, represented 12.8 percent of themarket, an increase of 2 points from the October quarter.
Between Samsung and Apple are second-place LG, with 19.7 percent ofthe U.S. market, and Motorola, taking 13.2 percent. All of the topthree saw their market share slip in January 2012, while Apple wasthe only company in the top five to gain ground. comScore's study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers.It also found that 74.6 percent of mobile subscribers use textmessaging on their device, while 48.6 percent have downloadedapplications, and 48.5 percent use a browser.
Another 35.7 percentaccessed a social networking site or blog, 31.8 percent playedgames, and 24.5 percent listened to music. I am a professional writer from Construction & Real Estate, which contains a great deal of information about mosaic ceramic tiles , prehung interior doors, welcome to visit!
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