comScore: Android continues to drag back RIM and Apple

by Steven Mostyn - Sep 17 2010, 05:10

The increasingly popular Android operating system remains on the march after the latest report from comScore revealed that Google’s mobile platform is still chipping away at the smartphone dominance enjoyed by Research In Motion (BlackBerry) and Apple (iPhone).

Specifically, comScore’s figures show that Android’s market share in the United States shifted from 12 percent to 17 percent during the three-month period ending in July, pushing the operating system beyond Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform in the process.

While Google continues to see Android spreading throughout the U.S. marketplace, Research In Motion and Apple have both lost momentum, with the former’s share dipping 1.8 percent to 39.3 percent, while the latter dropped 1.3 percent to 23.8 percent.

Google’s gain was certainly Microsoft’s loss, according to comScore, which shows the Windows Mobile operating system at 11.8 percent, a significant plunge of 2.2 percent across the three-month period.

HP-owned Palm and its webOS platform rounded out the report’s top-five performers in the smartphone sector with a share of 4.9 percent.

Also touching on the traction of handset makers in the U.S., comScore’s report was led by Samsung, which currently enjoys a 23.1 percent market share – closely followed by the likes of LG (21.2 percent), Motorola (19.8 percent), Research In Motion (9.0 percent) and Nokia (7.8 percent).

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