Google’s Android operating system currently claims the largest share of the U.S. consumer smartphone market with a very impressive 39%.
Meanwhile, Apple’s popular iOS weighs in at second place with 28%, while RIM’s moribund BlackBerry has dropped down to a paltry 20%.
However, as Nielsen points out, Apple is the only company manufacturing smartphones with iOS. As such, Cupertino should be ranked the top smartphone manufacturer in the United States.
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Other leading manufacturers currently include HTC, whose Android handsets command a very respectable 14% of the smartphone market and whose Windows Mobile/WP7 devices account for 6% of the lucrative space.
Motorola is considered another leading manufacturer, with Android devices owned by 11% of smartphone consumers.
Meanwhile, Samsung’s Android devices are used by 8% of smartphone owners and Windows Mobile/WP7 phones by 2%.
Interestingly enough, Android’s market share seems to have grown by only 2% since April.
Then again, as Abhiroop Basu of Android Police notes, it is “prudent” to keep in mind that WebOS and Symbian’s market share is only 2% each.
“Additionally, HTC’s combined market share (that is, Android OS + Windows Phone) is actually 20%, which is the same as RIM’s… It must be particularly good news for the Taiwanese manufacturer to be tied for second place in terms of manufacturer market share,” added Basu.