Survey: Android continues surge in smartphone market

USA Today (blog) - Brett Molina - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
Google's Android operating system powers almost 42% of the smartphones owned by US consumers, according to a recent ComScore survey. The research conducted over the last three months finds 82.2 million people in the US owned ...

Android nabs 41 percent share in US, study finds

CNET - Don Reisinger - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
Try as it might to catch up to Android, iOS simply isn't gaining ground, a new study from research firm ComScore has found. During the three-month period that ended in July, Android captured 41.8 percent of the US smartphone market, representing a 5.4 ...

Apple Continues Lead over RIM in US Mobile Market

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Mia Lamar - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Samsung Electronics continued to dominate the US market for mobile subscribers in the three months ended in July, while Apple preserved its lead over Blackberry-maker Research in Motion, according to market researcher comScore. ...

Samsung, LG, Motorola, Then Apple: America's Biggest Cell Phone Makers

PC Magazine - Sara Yin - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Apple iPhone coverage and rumors are ubiquitous on the Internet, but when it comes to actual sales, Samsung, LG, and Motorola are all more popular. In a market of 234 million US cell phone users, the pecking order for cell phone ...

Smartphones: Android Pulling Away From The Pack

Forbes - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
After a long career at Barron's, I joined Forbes as San Francisco bureau chief in December 2010. I've been writing about technology and investing for more than 25 years. With the Tech Trade, I'll pick up where I left off when I was writing the Tech ...

Android smartphones gain more ground in US

AFP - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO â€" Google's Android software strengthened its grip on the US smartphone market, powering nearly 42 percent of handsets as of July, industry tracker comScore reported on Tuesday. Android's share of the US smartphone market grew to 41.8 ...

Android smartphones surge to 42% share

Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Computerworld - Google's Android smartphones recently surged by 15% in popularity in the US, topping out the field with a nearly 42% share, according to the latest ComScore survey released Tuesday. Apple iPhone's second-place share also ...

One in four US phones is a Samsung; BlackBerry, Motorola losing ground

ZDNet (blog) - Zack Whittaker - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Summary: One in four phones in the United States is a Samsung device, with Android gaining ground, as BlackBerrys lose out to cheaper handsets, according to comScore. comScore statistics released today ...

iPhones,Androids dominate US cellphone market

Gant Daily - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
New York, NY, United States (AHN) â€" Chances are if you use a smartphone in the United States, it is an Apple iPhone or one powered by Google's Android. Seventy percent of the 82.2 million smartphone users in the US own either an Apple iPhone or a phone ...

iPhone 5 top 5 rivals: Nokia, Google, Samsung, BlackBerry, Motorola

FoneHome.co.uk - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
By Jon on August 31st, 2011 The iPhone 5 will be with us in the next month or so, and it promises to sweep all before it. But there's a small group of highly accomplished handsets all ready â€" or soon to be ready â€" to take Apple on at its own game. ...

Is Google's (GOOG) Android a Blackberry Killer?

Market Intelligence Center - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
For a long time, Research in Motion (RIMM) was the only true player in the smartphone market, with the highly successful Blackberry. That all changed back in 2007 when Apple (AAPL) launched the first generation iPhone, which took the smartphone market ...

Android Strengthens Hold on First Place in Smartphone Marketshare

TMC Net - Oliver VanDervoort - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
While many people think that the iPhone is the undisputed king of the smartphone market, it is actually Google's Android (News - Alert) platform phones which continue to reign. A new report continues to show ...

Mobile Market Steady, Apple Poised to Explode with iPhone 5

Review St. Louis - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
ComScore released their latest US Smartphone Market Share data today. In a way, it is not terribly surprising when comparing my projected values with July's actual results. Still, consistently failing is not good for anyone. RIM might want to take note ...

Android Tops Comscore's US Market Share Chart

Phandroid.com - Quentyn Kennemer - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
The folks at Comscore just put together some numbers regarding US smartphone market share. Their data was gathered from May 2011 though July 2011 â€" not exactly your traditional quarterly report but ...

Number of Android smartphone users continues to grow

PanARMENIAN.Net - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
PanARMENIAN.Net - Android and Apple together now share for nearly 70% of smartphone subscribers in the US, according to new estimates for July by comScore, TechCrunch reports. Android phones command nearly 42 % market share, while Apple's iPhone ...

Over Two-Thirds Of Smartphones In The US Run Android Or iOS

Android Police - Abhiroop Basu - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
A recent report from ComScore indicates that as of July 2011 82 million Americans own smartphones, with Android running on 41.8% of those devices, iOS on 27%, BlackBerry OS on 21.7%, Windows Phone on 5.7%, and Symbian on 1.9%. ...

Android US market share growth continues, comScore reports

GSMArena.com - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
The marketing research company comScore has just published its report on the US mobile phone market for the three months ending in July. The numbers confirm that Android continues to increase its share at a staggering rate, while Samsung maintains its ...

Top 10 Copied iOS 5 Features that May Leverage iPhone 5, iPad 3 to Stardom

International Business Times - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
By IB Times Staff Reporter | August 31, 2011 4:03 AM EDT Apple has copied certain features from Google-powered Android to scale new heights in the smartphone industry. iMessage: The iMessage feature lets people communicate in real time, just like the ...

Android and Samsung Dominate Apple

Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Emily Knapp - ‎Aug 31, 2011‎
While the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone might be the most popular smartphone model in the country, Apple faces significant competition when it comes to its mobile market share. According to a recent comScore survey (NASDAQ:SCOR) with a 9.5% ...

ComScore: Android Creeps Up On 42 Percent Share

eWEEK Europe UK - Clint Boulton - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Google's Android operating system grabbed a 41.8 percent US 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 ...

Android Creeps Up on 42% Share: comScore

eWeek - Clint Boulton - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Google increased its lead over Apple's iOS, Research In Motion's BlackBerry and other smartphone platforms, according to comScore. Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system grabbed a 41.8 percent US smartphone market share for July, up nearly two ...

Android & iPhone Dominate Smartphone Market at BlackBerry's Expense [STATS]

Mashable - Ben Parr - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Google and Apple continue to eat up more of the smartphone market, while RIM and Microsoft continue to lose ground. According to new data from comScore, 82.2 million people in the US owned a smartphone as of July 2011, a full 10% increase from April ...

comScore: Just Over One-Third Of US Consumers Use Smartphones

paidContent.org - Ingrid Lunden - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Everyone likes to talk about the boom in smartphone use, but the reality is that even in the most advanced markets, there is still a long way to grow: figures out from comScore today indicate that in the US, only around 35 percent of all consumers over ...

Android now owns more than 40 percent of U.S. smartphone share: comScore

Examiner.com - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Android grew more, meaning it advanced its lead on iOS still further, gaining 5.4 percent to rise to 41.8 percent. Meanwhile, Apple's share rose 1 percent to 27 percent. That means (naturally) that the rest of the top five platforms all dropped. ...

Smartphone Market In July: Same as It Ever Was

All Things Digital - John Paczkowski - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
The latest survey from comScore on the state of the US smartphone market came out today, and it breaks down pretty much the way all recent smartphone platform surveys seem to. According to the research firm's July metrics, Google's Android holds the No ...

News: Apple, Google, Samsung All Show Gains in U.S. Mobile Market

The Mac Observer - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Bryan Chaffin began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko's guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. ...

Samsung Top Maker, Androd Top Smartphone OS, Says comScore

Wireless and Mobile News - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Samsung is the top mobile phone maker and Android is the top smartphone OS reports comScore. More than 80 million Americans now own smartphones with 82.2 million people owning smartphones in the United States. For makers of smartphones Samsung is the ...

Samsung & LG Feel Pressure From Government To Abandon Android [South Korean ...

TFTS (blog) - Tim Lenahan - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
The big news of the month is that Google has acquired Motorola winning themselves a pocket-full of patents and a foot in the smartphone hardware door. Surprisingly, many of the other manufacturers were said to be OK with the merger, including South ...

Google's Android and Apple's iOS continue march to smartphone domination

The Wire Report - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Now in the hands of more than two-thirds of American smartphone users, the popular mobile platforms from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are continuing to squeeze competitors out of the US market, comScore Inc. said in new research released Tuesday. ...

iOS and Android market shares grow, RIM and WP7 drop

Today's iPhone - Cam Bunton - ‎Aug 30, 2011‎
Competition is good in any market. That's why it's sad to see that two operating systems are dominating the mobile market place. These two, iOS and Android are pulling further away from the ...

 

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