Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share

Mobile users in the US are doing more with their phones besides talking. It’s no surprise, either, as Android and iPhone devices are gaining in smartphone market share.

…The majority of mobile users are still using standard handsets, but when it comes to smartphones, RIM remained the leader with 41.6 percent of the smartphone segment in December of 2009. This number was down a full percentage point from September, however, while Apple’s share (25.3 percent in December) was up by 1.2 percentage points a trend that RIM has been battling with Apple for some time now.

Equally fearsome is Google’s comparatively huge 2.7 percentage point jump (to 5.2 percent), while both Microsoft and Palm also lost points over the same time period. Although RIM still has a long way to go before giving up the lead to Apple, and Google still has plenty of share to gain before it overtakes Microsoft’s number three spot, the trends show that consumers are warming more to the iPhone and Android phones than those traditionally marketed towards enterprise users. (Palm, in the fourth spot at 6.1 percent, looks like it will be surpassed by Google within months if the two companies continue on their…

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Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share

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