According to a study of more than 30,000 US mobile subscribers, Samsung is the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.9% market share. The survey also found that the Google Android took the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2% market share, after two short months in second place.
For the three month average period ending in January, 234 million Americans aged 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 24.9% of U.S. mobile subscribers, 0.7% points higher than the three month period ending in October. LG ranked second with 20.8% share, followed by Motorola (16.5 percent), RIM (8.6 percent) and Apple (7.0 percent).
65.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in January 2011, up 8 percent from the preceding three-month period. Google Android captured the first slot ranking among smartphone platforms for the first time in January with 31.2% market share. RIM ranked second with 30.4% market share, followed by Apple with 24.7%t. Microsoft (8.0 percent) and Palm (3.2 percent) rounded out the top five.
In January, 68.1% of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, while browsers were used by 37.0% of subscribers (up 0.8 percentage points). Subscribers who used downloaded applications comprised 35.3% of the mobile audience, representing an increase of 1.6 percentage points. Accessing of social networking sites or blogs increased 1.1% points, representing 25.3 percent of mobile subscribers. Playing games represented 23.7 percent of the mobile audience, while listening to music represented 16.5 percent (up 1.1 percentage points).
