Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG)
Android operating system grabbed a 41.8 percent U.S. smartphone market share
for July,
up nearly two percentage points from its June count of 40 percent and nearly
four points from its 38 percent share from May.
The company
increased its lead
over Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS, Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM)
BlackBerry and other smartphone platforms, said comScore Aug. 30. iOS
grabbed 27 percent share, up from 26.6 percent share in June.
Beyond, the nasty legal imbroglios between Apple and Android OEMs
Samsung, HTC and Motorola, an intriguing battle is shaping up for this
fall.
Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S II handsets, which are lighter, thinner
and
faster than their predecessors, from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile Aug.
30 in Manhattan. The launch came after Samsung sold more than 5 million
of
the high-end Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphones in less than three
months in Korea, Japan and Europe.
The Galaxy S II will have a stiff challenger in Apple's iPhone 5 when it
launches in September or October, possibly on Sprint's network in addition to
AT&T and Verizon.
The rest of the U.S. smartphone market isn't faring so well. BlackBerry fell to 21.7
percent share, down from 23.4 percent in June and from 24.7 percent in May. RIM
just launched the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, hoping to woo enterprise customers with its new Blackberry 7 OS-based handset.
Microsoft Windows Mobile grabbed 5.7 percent share, down a tick from the last
period. The company expects to stabilize its smartphone market share
hemorrhaging with its Windows Phone 7 platform.
Though WP7 is a vastly improved platform, Canalys estimated that Microsoft
(NASDAQ:MSFT) shipped less than 1.5 million smartphones in Q2 for
only a 1 percent global market share. Microsoft believes that will change once
smartphones running its "Mango" update become available this fall.
Nokia has bet bold on WP7 and is launching several WP7 handsets in 2012 as it
seeks to slough off Symbian and attack the smartphone market anew.
Meanwhile, comScore said 82.2 million people in the United States owned smartphones through July, up 10 percent from
the preceding three month period. Some 70 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their
mobile device, while browsers were used by 41 percent of subscribers,
followed by downloaded applications at 40.6 percent.
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