Samsung has the largest mobile subscriber base in the US with 25.6% market share, while Google Android was the top smartphone platform with 46.9% market share during the three month average period ending November 2011, according to comScore’s data from the comScore MobiLens service.
In the study where over 30,000 US mobile subscribers were surveyed, it was also found that for the three-month average period ending in November, 234m Americans aged 13 and older used mobile devices.
LG stood at the second position in terms of mobile subscriber base with 20.5% share and Motorola at third with 13.7%. While Apple was at the fourth position with 11.2% percent share, RIM stood at the fifth with 6.5% share.
According to the research firm, 91.4m people in the US owned smartphones during the same period, up 8% from the previous three month period. Apple retained its number two position in the smartphone platform stakes with 28.7% share, followed by RIM, Microsoft and Symbian with 16.6%, 5.2% and 1.5% shares, respectively.
