Android has gained a majority share of the US smartphone market, according to the latest figures from comScore’s mobiLens service, covering the three-month average period to the end of February 2011, based on a survey of more than 30,000 mobile subscribers.
More than 104m people in the US owned smartphones during the period under review, with Android securing a 50.1 per cent share of the market, up from 46.9 per cent for the previous quarter, and from 48.6 per cent from the previous month (i.e., for the 3-month period to the end of January 2012).
Apple stands in second place with a 30.2 per cent share of the market, an increase of 0.7 percentage points over the previous month. RIM is a distant third on 13.4 per cent, down from 15.2 per cent in January. Microsoft is in fourth place on 3.9 per cent (4.4 per cent in January), with Symbian in fifth on 1.5 per cent, slightly up on January’s figure of 1.4 per cent. 
Looking at handset makers overall market share, including smartphones and feature phones, Samsung is the leading OEM, with a 25.6 per cent of the market, the same as the previous quarter, but 0.2 percentage points up on the previous month.
LG is in second place on 19.4 per cent, 1.2 points down on January, with Apple leapfrogging Motorola to take third place with 13.5 per cent, an increase of 1.1 percentage points over January. Motorola slips to fourth on 12.8 per cent (13.3 per cent in January), with HTC knocking RIM out of the top five on 6.6 per cent, to cap a miserable few days for the BlackBerry maker.
