As the mobile platform war turns, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), Motorola Inc. (MOT) and Palm (HPQ) all lost smartphone market share in the United States over the last three months while Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (<a href=http://stocks.rcrnews.com/rcrwireless./quote?Symbol=AAPL) made gains.
The BlackBerry maker suffered the largest decline, dropping 4.2% to a 24.7% share of smartphone users, according to comScore Inc.’s (SCOR) latest report. Motorola’s share dropped 1.9% to 5.8% and Palm dropped .4% to 2.4%.
Google made the biggest gain, adding 5.1% to reach 38.1% overall and Apple, which hasn’t released a new smartphone in more than a year, gained 1.4% to hit 26.6% of the market.
Smartphones are now in the hands of 76.8 million people in the United States, marking an 11% gain from the previous three-month period, comScore reported.
In terms of mobile devices overall, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. maintained its lead position, but remained flat at 24.8% of the market. LG Electronics Inc. gained .2% of the market to reach 21.1% while Motorola distanced itself a little further by dropping a percentage point to 15.1%. Apple was the only manufacturer to make any sizeable gains in the three month stretch, adding 1.2% to reach an 8.7% share while RIM slipped below Apple, dropping .5% share to round out the top five OEMs at 8.1%.
Finally on the content front, text messages still rule the day with 69.5% of all U.S. mobile subscribers using the service. comScore also reported that browser usage jumped to 39.8%, downloaded apps use jumped to 38.6%, social media and blogs hit 28.6%, games jumped to 26.9% and music rounded out the top six activities on mobile at 18.6%.
Every top five OEM's loss is Apple and Google's gain
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