Of the top 5 handset manufacturers in the U.S., only Apple has shown growth since June
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The survey, conducted by analytics firm comScore, addressed more than 30,000 mobile subscribers aged 13 or higher and found that on average 234 million Americans used mobile devices in Q3 with 87.4 million of them using smartphones. That is a 12% gain year-over-year. Among smartphone users, the number one platform is Android as 44.8% of mobile users turn to the green robot to drive their smartphone, a 4.6% gain from the prior quarter. Apple's iOS was number two, gaining .8% to control 27.4% of the U.S. smartphone market. Number three was RIM with 18.9% followed by Microsoft and Symbian with 5.6% and 1.8% of the U.S. market respectively.
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A large majority of U.S. cell phone users like to text |
So what are cell phone users doing with all that computing and communication power in the palm of their hand? Well, 71.1% of them are using their handset for texting, an increase of 1.5% from the quarter that ended in June. It seems that a large number of Americans are buying a phone with features that they don't need. For many of those who own a smartphone, a simple featurephone would apparently have all of the things they do need in a handset, like a physical QWERTY keyboard.
source: comScore via AppleInsider
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comScore's survey reveals Samsung as the top U.S. handset manufacturer and Android as the leading platform | |
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20 Comments
2. networkdood posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:35 6 0
LG has 20.6% of the smartphone market in the U.S.?? That cannot be correct...
3. TerryCrowley posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:39 2 0
The mid-range Optimus S line-up which has been released to pretty much every single carrier adds up.
7. Commentator posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:51 2 1
Yeah, the graph measures Smartphone and Non-smartphone growth. If the editors had actually bothered reading the chart I'm sure this article would never have even been written... Also, if it did measure just smartphones HTC would definitely be on there.
9. Commentator posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:56 2 1
It's been changed from "smartphone" to "handset" now, which is much more believable.
14. taco50 (banned) posted on 05 Nov 2011, 01:37 4 4
Yea seems like the writer doesn't understand the article he's writing about. He says majority of people don't browse the web. Well majority of people don't have smartphones.
17. dunyfunny posted on 05 Nov 2011, 12:15 0 0
This may be true with feature or dumb phones but I think you are right.
this does not include HTC. where is HTC? also where is sony ericsson, right?
4. warlockz posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:39 2 0
Comscore also understated the amount of people who visit yahoo by a billion.
http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/07/27/yahoo-claims-comscore-underreported-its-u-s-page-views-by-1-billion-last-june/
5. Mehha posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:43 3 5
I loved the display picture of this post :)
Could anyone please tell me from where i can get it in high resolution?
Between, happy for Apple :)
6. Commentator posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:50 3 3
Misleading title. The chart shows growth/loss in both "Smartphone & Non-smartphone." Samsung's 0.0 growth doesn't necessarily mean its smartphone market hasn't grown, it could (and probably does) mean that its feature phone market has decline while its smart phone market has increased. I advise the writer to read the parameters of the chart first, as Alan F. also writes that Samsung controls 25.2% of the "smartphone market" which isn't true at all.
8. Commentator posted on 05 Nov 2011, 00:54 2 3
Thanks for changing the title, now my previous comment will probably get like 50 dislikes :P
10. gallitoking posted on 05 Nov 2011, 01:07 2 5
hmmmm to me sounds about right.... expect something similar the following months...
12. taco50 (banned) posted on 05 Nov 2011, 01:27 3 8
Apple continues to amaze. They had growth with a phone over 1 yr old. Gallito get ready for an explosion with the best iPhone yet. Siri will become a household name and Apple's market share will go up.
16. Jobes posted on 05 Nov 2011, 12:10 1 1
Lolololol.. you remind me of a schoolgirl who has a crush on someone who will never notice them. Keep saving your money Taco so that way when you ACTUALLY get an iphone 4s you can just cuddle with it all night..
18. dunyfunny posted on 05 Nov 2011, 12:17 1 0
absolutely wrong research and data! where is htc and sony ericsson?
20. 530gemini posted on 05 Nov 2011, 16:07 1 0
The iphone's figures would even be more amazing in Q4 with the ip4S.
