Google Android the Most Popular Smartphone in America Now

Filed in archive Best of on December 7, 2011

Over 1/3 of smartphone users in America have chosen Google's Android OS. The results were revealed in by comScore, a market research firm, which surveyed over 30,000 smartphone users in US. The survey concluded that 34.7% of smartphone users have gravitated towards Android; this is an increase from 28.7% smartphone users who used Android a year ago. The number of smartphone users has increased by 14.7% over the last year, from 63.2 million to 72.5 million.

Android ascendancy has seen Blackberry fall from the spot of number one smartphone OS, while RIM too lost a lot of users go, while Microsoft Windows Mobile took a beating, falling from 8.4% market share, to 7.5%, Only Apple with its popular iPhone has been able to increase its number of smartphone users from 25% to 25.5%.

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