USA: Android beyond Blackberry

USA: Android beyond Blackberry.

The smartphone based on Google Android operating system are, officially, the most sold in the U.S. market, surpassing the Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones from Research in Motion.

According to studies conducted and published by ComScore analysis, the Android phones would be sold over the Blackberry, has always topped the sales charts for U.S. users. The Google Android operating system won first place in the U.S. for the first time with a 31.2% market share at three months (and exactly in the period from November to January, inclusive).

RIM has slipped to second place with a 30.4% market share, followed by Apple with 24.7%, Microsoft with 8.0% and 3.2% with the Palm. From the data published by comScore, 234 million Americans own a mobile phone in late January, but 65.8 million were smartphones. At the same time, Samsung has emerged as the largest producer of mobile terminals, with a share of 24.9% in the U.S., followed by LG (20.8%), Motorola (16.5%), RIM (8.6%) and Apple (7.0%).