comScore has released its latest report on smartphone market share for the three months of March through May. Unsurprisingly, the trend continues from previous months: Android is rapidly climbing among smartphone platforms.
It should be noted, however, that these numbers obviously don't include the iPhone 4, which did not launch until late June.
Android continued to climb, and while it still "only" has 13 percent of smartphone market share, what's more important is that rise is from 9 percent in the last report. That rise, therefore, comes to 44.4 percent over a three month period.
Meanwhile, during that time, all the other smartphone platforms took dives. RIM still has a 41.7 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers (a drop of 0.4 percent), while Apple had a 24.4 percent share (a drop of 1 percent). Microsoft saw a drop of 1.9 percent to 13.2, while Palm dropped rounded out the top five out with a 4.8 percent share, a drop of 0.6 percent.
In terms of manufacturer share, Samsung is now at the top, with 22.4 percent market share. LG is second at 21.5 percent, followed by Motorola at 21.2 percent. In the last report, the top three were Motorola (22.3 percent), LG (21.7 percent) and Samsung (21.4 percent). RIM and Nokia swapped places, with RIM now 4 and Nokia 5. Remember, this is U.S. smartphone market share, not overall global cell phone market share.
In total, 49.1 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending covered in the report. That is up 8.1 percent from the corresponding February report.
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