According to a latest research on mobile phones, Apple, RIM and Microsoft are losing their grounds to Google in the U.S. smartphone market.According to Marketing intelligence company comScore, 53.4 mn people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the quarter, up 11 percent from the previous quarter. Only Google Android grew in market share, from 12 percent to 17% of the U.S. smartphone market. Microsoft, Research in Motion, and Apple all lost share, while Palm hovered at 4.9%
Research on Mobile Phone Usage: The research also found that 2/3 subscribers send text messages and 1/3 subscribers use a browser on their mobile devices. 31.4 percent of users download mobile applications for their mobile devices, and 21.8 % access social networks and blogs.
Android O.S Wins Over iOS: In June, Android passed iOS to become the 3rd most-popular mobile phone operating system in the world, according to Gartner: “A non-exclusive strategy that produces products selling across many communication service providers, and the backing of so many device manufacturers, which are bringing more attractive devices to market at several different price points, were among the factors that yielded its growth this quarter,” said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. In a September research note, the research firm projected Apple will sell 130 million iOS-based mobile devices per year by 2014. In comparison, Gartner projected Android will sell 259 million devices in 2014.
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