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Half of US mobile subscribers now own a smartphone, Nielsen says

29 March, 2012 | Read the news | Post your comment
Half of US mobile subscribers now own a smartphone, Nielsen says - read the full textAccording to Nielsen's report on the US mobile market in February 2012, smartphone usage is growing and 49.7% of mobile subscribers now own a smartphone. This represents a 38% jump over last year's 36%. The growth of the smartphone sector is hardly news for anyone now, but the rate is...

 

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What this tells us is that iOS has been getting most of the old BlackBerry customers. The shrinking of the "others" is hardly surprising. Symbian is now at less than 2% market share in the US and the rest is probably pretty evenly divided with Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and some even smaller OSs. Ironically, what this means is practice is that even in the US Symbian and Windows Phone are currently still pretty much tied, even if it's only because both have very small market share... The WP market share will probably get some kind of boost from Nokia 900, but how much remains to be seen.

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  • 2012-03-29 19:29
  • nx6g

gimme a cookie you american smartphone owners

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  • 2012-03-29 19:26
  • IVZW

Way to go android

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  • 2012-03-29 19:24
  • qGMi
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