
According to new data out from comScore, the total number of Americans who own mobile devices now tops 234M, with 90M of which being smartphones. The study covers the three-month average period ending October 2011, and includes a survey of more than 30,000 US mobile subscribers.
In terms of mobile OEM data, Samsung remains the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.5% total market share, followed by LG with 20.6% marketshare and Motorola with 13.6%. In terms of mobile operating systems, Android holds on to the number one spot — now sitting at 46.3% total market share. Apple comes in at second place with 28.1% of the market — up only one percentage point over the proceeding three-month period. RIM rounded out the top three with 17.2% share, followed by Microsoft in fourth place with 5.4% and Symbian in fifth place with just 1.6%.
Looking at mobile content, 71.8% of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device in October — up 1.8 percentage points over the last reporting period. Mobile Web browsers were used by 44% of subscribers — up 2.9% — while downloaded applications were used by 43.8% — up 3.2%. Use of social networking sites and blogs increased 2.2% to 32.3% total, while mobile gaming came in at 29.2% — up 1.4% from the previous period.
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- Android
- Announcements
- BlackBerry
- iOS
- iPhone
- Mobile Apps
- Mobile Data
- Mobile Devices
- Mobile Internet
- Mobile News
- Mobile Websites
- Mobilize
- SMS / Text
- Symbian
- Android
- apple
- BlackBerry
- comscore
- comscore mobile metrics
- comscore mobile reports
- handset manufacturers
- iOS
- LG
- microsoft
- mobile app downloads
- Mobile Apps
- mobile data
- Mobile Devices
- mobile games
- mobile gaming
- mobile handsets
- mobile metrics
- mobile OEMs
- mobile phones
- mobile subscriber market share
- mobile subscribers
- mobile web
- mobile Web browser
- mobile web browsing
- motorola
- playing games
- RIM
- RIM Blackberry
- Samsung
- smartphones
- sms
- Symbian
- tablets
- text messaging
- Windows 7