The Google Android platform extended its lead in
the US smartphone market while Apple increased its market share to
nearly a third in March through May, a survey showed Monday.
Android accounted for 50.9 percent of all
smartphones used in the US during the three-month average period,
according to the comScore survey.
Apple's iPhone scored 31.9 percent of the market, up from 30.2 percent in the prior three-month period.
The survey comes amid intense competition and legal fights over patents in the smartphone market.
A judge in California last week granted
Apple's request for an injunction blocking US sales of Samsung Galaxy
Nexus smartphones made in collaboration with Google to challenge the
iPhone. Additional patent cases are pending in other courts.
ComScore said nearly 110 million people in
the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in May, up five
percent from February.
The survey showed continued bad news for
Research in Motion's BlackBerry, which saw its platform share fall to
11.4 percent from 13.4 percent.
Microsoft's share edged up slightly to 4.0 percent from 3.9 percent.
Among all mobile phones, Korean-based Samsung
remained the top maker with 25.7 percent of the US market. Second was
fellow Korean LG with 19.1 percent, while Apple was third with 15
percent.
Android and iPhone smartphones accounted for
slightly more than 90 percent of US smartphone sales in the fourth
quarter of 2011, industry-tracker NPD Group reported earlier this year.
A recent survey by ABI Research found that
Samsung and Apple have captured more than half the global market for
smartphones and over 90 percent of its profits.
ABI said Samsung delivered 43 million units in the quarter, to 35 million for Apple.
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