Android Passes RIM in United States as leading Mobile OS

Android continued its dominance of the smartphone landscape by shooting ancient BlackBerry maker RIM as the leading smartphone OS in the U.S., according to another data from ComScore.

Tracking the basic quarter of 2011, ComScore ranked Android's U.S. Marketplace share by the side of 34.7 percent, six percentage points senior than in the final quarter of 2010. Clothed in comparison, RIM's share fell to 27.1 percent, a 4.5 central theme decline from 31.6 percent in the prior quarter, putting the BlackBerry operating organization in flash place between the top five.

Eyeing the other players, Apple's iOS share inched up partly a percentage central theme in the basic quarter, while Microsoft's Windows Phone and HP's PalmOS both dropped not far off from a percentage central theme. Overall, 72.5 million citizens in the U.S. Owned smartphones throughout the basic quarter, a achieve of 15 percent from the prior quarter, ComScore thought.

Looking by the side of the genuine mobile phone makers (both smartphones and skin texture phones), Samsung was the top manufacturer in the basic quarter, with 24.5 percent of all U.S. Mobile customers. LG took flash place with a 20.9 percent share, followed by Motorola with 15.8 percent.

Clothed in fourth place, RIM stayed relatively plane with an 8.4 percent share of the marketplace. But Apple grabbed a 1.1 central theme achieve to capture 7.9 percent of the marketplace, gratitude in part to the launch of the Verizon iPhone.

Peeking by the side of pardon? Mobile subscribers are liability with their phones, ComScore found text messaging to be the top pursuit, ready by 68.6 percent of users, up 2.2 points from the prior month. Other general activities integrated using mobile browsers, downloading apps, accessing social net sites, in performance games, and listening to harmony.

To compile its data, ComScore surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. Mobile subscribers through its MobiLens service.