iPhone gains, BlackBerry loses US smartphone marketshare

Jonny Evans
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February 09, 2010
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Apple iPhone gained one percentage point share in the US smartphone market while BlackBerry lost a point in the last three months of 2009, said comScore.

The researchers reported Monday that BlackBerry remains the most widely used smart phone system in the US, with 41.6 percent of the market - one point less than in the previous quarter.

Apple gained 1.2 percentage points to reach 25.3 percent of the US smart phone market.

Microsoft took 18 percent of the market, followed by Palm with 6.1 percent and Google with 5.2 percent.

Motorola remained top US handset hardware maker in the quarter, with 23.5 percent market share. Its closest competitors, LG Electronics and Samsung, made 21.9 percent and 21.2 percent of all phones used in the US, followed by Nokia Corp. and RIM.

Comments (3)

ernie. (not verified) | February 09, 2010 - 7:15am

Wait, how come Motorola is the top US handset maker with 23.5 instead of Apple with 25.3?

Kerryn (not verified) | February 09, 2010 - 8:17am

That is 25.5% of the SMART phone market. Whereas Motorola is 23.5% of all phones - including the crap ones that are given away free...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | February 09, 2010 - 2:32pm

what is source?

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