comScore: More Than 100M U.S. Mobile Subscribers Now Use Smartphones; Android And iOS Market Share Up

Online and mobile data research company comScore has just released monthly mobile usage data from its MobiLens service, which reports mobile usage stats for the three month average period ending January 2012. One of the notable data points from the report is that over 100 million U.S. mobile subscribers (101.3 million to be exact) are using smartphones, which is up from 97.9 million in the previous period. That's up 13 percent since October 2011. During the period ending January 2012, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices in general. Similar to last month's findings, Google's Android OS continued to grow its share in the smartphone market, accounting for 48.6 percent of smartphone subscribers (up 2.3 percentage points) followed by Apple with 29.5 percent market share (up 1.4 percentage points). RIM ranked third with 15.2 percent share, followed by Microsoft (4.4 percent) and Symbian (1.5 percent).

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