Android nears 50% mark in the US

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        comScore has aloof appear their fresh address on the US smartphone bazaar and it turns out that there are no affecting changes to be witnessed. Android connected to be the fastest growing adaptable belvedere about and alike the barrage of the iPhone 4S wasn't abundant for iOS to bout its growth.

        In the three months catastrophe on November 30, 46.9% of the smartphone users in the US had a Google OS device. That's 3.1 percent credibility college than the Android bazaar allotment for the antecedent three months.

         iOS came in a adequately abroad additional - Apple's proprietary belvedere acquired 1.4 percent point and had a bazaar allotment of 28.7%. RIM's struggles abide as BlackBerry OS absent added 3.1 percent credibility and now alone admiral 16.6% of the US smartphones.

         Symbian and Microsoft didn't accept a decidedly acceptable time in the bazaar either, the two platforms bottomward 0.5 and 0.3 percent credibility of their corresponding bazaar shares.

Top Adaptable OEMs

3 Month Avg. Catastrophe Nov. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Catastrophe Aug. 2011

Share (%) of Adaptable Subscribers

Aug-11 Nov-11 Point Change

Total Adaptable Subscribers 100.0% 100.0% N/A

Samsung 25.3% 25.6% 0.3

LG 21.0% 20.5% -0.5

Motorola 14.0% 13.7% -0.3

Apple 9.8% 11.2% 1.4

RIM 7.1% 6.5% -0.6

But for all the success that Android is having, the additional allotment of the comScore address shows that Apple is the distinct aggregation to annals the better advance in the accomplished three months. The Cupertino-based aggregation now owns 11.4% of the corpuscle buzz bazaar (that includes smartphones and featuresphones) and is breath bottomward Motorola's close for the third spot.

At the top Samsung continued its advance over the additional placed LG and now accounts for added than a division of all adaptable accessories awash in the US.