Android gains market share in the US

Google’s Android mobile operating system has continued to gain market share in the United States, according to the latest figures released by ComScore.

 

The figures show Android recorded the biggest gains, growing 5.4 percentage points, taking 41.8% of the smartphone market in total.

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry software fell by four points to 21.7%, while Apple gained one point to 27%. Microsoft recorded a 1% drop to 5.7%, while Symbian recorded a 0.4% decline to 1.9%.

The figures also showed that 70% of US subscribers used text messaging, up by 1.2 percentage points, while browsers were used by 41.1%, up by two percentage points.

The number of subscribers accessing blogs or social networking sites also increased by 2.1 percentage points to 30.1% of subscribers.

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