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A look at Smartphone sales in the United States
Daniel Carey
In a world that’s dominated by stock shares and user sales it stands to reason that the American mobile market has some form of documentation displaying what actually occurs at the cash register. Made available via comScore, the following statistics are for the sales month of January. We highly suggest that you read on past the break to see which smartphone companies are doing well and which are not. -- The results may surprise you.
Motorola at one point receded; however, with a slow but steady release of decent Android smartphones they were able to represent 22.9% of smartphone holders. Rather impressive when you think about it, however, compared to sales from October of 2009 their sales are down by 1.2%.
Moving onto tangible smartphone platforms: Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and RIM’s Blackberry OS all saw market gains, while the likes of Windows Mobile and Palm saw significant losses. Loosing 2.1% Palm is starting to hurt, however, the statistical data doesn’t imply whether it’s WebOS devices alone or both WebOS and Palm-OS devices. The suspected inclusion of both makes more sense as legacy devices such as the Centros are becoming less readily available. But until this information is made public it’s simply speculation on my part.
There’s no doubt about it, it’s a good time to be an owner of an Android device. Increasing sales by 4%, Android is well on the way to becoming a more readily used operating system, especially in the eyes of the American consumer. Microsoft’s sales took a turn for the worse, decreasing by 4%. The decrease in Microsoft sales is most likely the start of the bump that the company predicted to see, whilst heading into the future release of Windows Phone 7 Series.
To no surprise RIM still dominates the American smartphone market. Which when you think about it, is kind of funny as Blackberry’s boast excellent hardware, but with the creation of newer operating systems i.e. Android and WebOS the Blackberry OS really isn’t all that functional.
Apple sales managed to increase marginally (0.3%) which is to be expected, as Apple fanboys ahem consumers wait to see what the Cupertino based company is set to release in summer.
