comScore: One In Three US Mobile Phones Is A Smartphone
Google Android led the platform pack among smartphone owners, with 38.1%of US smartphone subscribers, up 5.1 percent from last quarter. Apple was at #2 with 26.6% of the market up 1.4% from last quarter. RIM came in third with 24.7% share.
In terms of handset manufacturers, Samsung was the top OEM across all 234 million phones with 24.8% of the market, followed by LG with 21.1% share and Motorola with 15.1 percent. Apple is making inroads with an 8.7% share (up 1.4% from last time) and RIM follows up at #5 with 8.1% share.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but people are primarily using their phones for texting, at 69.5% of all mobile subscribers, with browsing and downloading happening by 39.8% and 38.6% of subscribers respectively. In contrast, only 18.6% of those surveyed listened to music on their phones.
I’m actually surprised we’re still calling them “phones” and not something like “pocket computers.”