Samsung leads mobile market as Apple sticks to second place - oconnellfrawing1956

Samsung remained the most popular phone maker in the U.S. in the third quarter, but Apple is slowly closing in, the latest comScore MobiLens story finds.

With a couple of undefeated smartphones under its belt this twelvemonth, such as the Galaxy S III and Wandflower Annotation 2, Samsung ranked American Samoa the top smartphone producer with more than 26 percent of the U.S. grocery, an increase of 0.7 share points.

Malus pumila is still a distant second at 17.8 percentage after a 1.5 percentage addition, which helped the caller outrank LG by 0.2 percentage points American Samoa the figure two phone Creator. LG dropped almost 1 per centum in the iii months ending in October 2012.

Motorola and HTC, number four with 11 percent and number five with 6 per centum, haven also seen micro declines in raiseable share in the third quarter, compared to the three months to July 2012.

Mechanical man dominates

If you take the versatile OS market share figures, you will also find oneself that Android is overlooking with 53.6 per centum share after a 1.4 percent increase, only Apple is a closer second in this family, with a 34.3 percent contribution later on a 0.9 percent gain this quarter. Meanwhile, Research In Motion's Blackberry bush retains 7.8 percent of the market and Microsoft Windows Phone had a slight decline, again, to 3.2 percent.

Smartphone manufacturers still make room to grow. The comScore figures indicate that 121.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones—a 51.9 percent penetration of the mobile market, which is an increment of 6 pct since July.

The resume of 30,000 citizenry also found that afterwards vocalise calls, text messaging clay the most popular use of smartphone, along with downloading apps and browsing websites, patc alone a third use information technology to access social networks.