Android continues to surge, report shows

Android continues to eat up more smartphone customers, according to the newborn stats from mart scientist ComScore.

Looking at the threesome months success August, Android’s mart deal chromatic to 19.6 proportionality in the U.S.–a acquire of 6.6 points from the preceding threesome months. Though Google’s smartphone papers is ease ordinal among the crowning five, it was the exclusive digit to exhibit ontogeny in mart deal for the period.

Among the another field players, RIM was the directive smartphone papers with 37.6 proportionality of U.S. subscribers. Apple was incoming in distinction with 24.2 percent. Microsoft accounted for 10.8 percent, and Palm came in terminal with 4.6 percent. These quaternary companies shedded mart deal to Android during the quarter, but ComScore noted in its advise promulgation yesterday that most smartphone platforms ease won more subscribers unqualified over the season cod to ever-increasing consumer demand.

The 55.7 meg grouping in the U.S. who owned smartphones during the threesome months success August represented a move of 14 proportionality over the preceding threesome months.

Analyzing the coverall ambulatory sound market, Samsung was the crowning phone concern for the threesome months with 23.6 proportionality of U.S. subscribers, ComScore noted. LG was in ordinal locate with a 21.2 proportionality share, followed by Motorola with 18.8 percent, RIM with 9 percent, and Nokia with 7.6 percent. Among the crowning fivesome phone makers, exclusive Samsung and RIM took bag gains in mart share.

Over the aforementioned period, 67 proportionality of the ambulatory users texted on their devices, 34.5 proportionality used
mobile browsers, 32 proportionality downloaded apps, 23 proportionality played games, 22.5 proportionality visited ethnic networks and blogs, and 15 proportionality listened to music. All sextet activities chromatic in popularity among subscribers compared with the preceding threesome months.