Palm Claimed 6% of the US Smartphone Market in Dec
comScore has released their latest data from the comScore MobiLens service, which reports on key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry over the three month period between September and December 2009. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers as well as the most popular forms of content and activity accessed via mobile device.
The report found Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer with 23.5 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 41.6 percent market share. Although down slightly from the last period, Palm's webOS broke into the top 5 platforms for the period as well.
OEM Market Share
A total of 234 million people age 13 and older in the U.S. used mobile devices in December 2009. Device manufacturer Motorola was the top ranked OEM with 23.5 percent of U.S. mobile devices. LG ranked second with 21.9 percent share, followed by Samsung (21.2 percent share), Nokia (9.2 percent share) and RIM (7.0 percent share).
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Top Mobile OEMs 3 Months Ending Dec. 2009 vs. 3 Months Ending Sep. 2009* Total U.S. Age 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens |
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| Share (%) of Mobile Devices | |||
| Sep-09 | Dec-09 | Point Change | |
| Total Mobile Subscribers | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Motorola | 24.9% | 23.5% | -1.4 |
| LG | 21.7% | 21.9% | 0.2 |
| Samsung | 20.4% | 21.2% | 0.8 |
| Nokia | 9.6% | 9.2% | -0.4 |
| RIM | 6.4% | 7.0% | 0.6 |
Smartphone Platform Market Share
RIM was the leading mobile smartphone operating system in the U.S. in December 2009 with 41.6 percent share of U.S. smartphone devices. Apple ranked second with 25.3 percent share (up 1.2 percentage points), followed by Microsoft with 18.0 percent share, Palm with 6.1 percent share, and Google with 5.2 percent share (up 2.7 percentage points).
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Top Smartphone Platforms 3 Months Ending Dec. 2009 vs. 3 Months Ending Sep. 2009 Total U.S. Age 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens |
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| Share (%) of Smartphone Devices | |||
| Sep-09 | Dec-09 | Point Change | |
| Total Smartphone Subscribers | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| RIM | 42.6% | 41.6% | -1.0 |
| Apple | 24.1% | 25.3% | 1.2 |
| Microsoft | 19.0% | 18.0% | -1.0 |
| Palm | 8.3% | 6.1% | -2.2 |
| 2.5% | 5.2% | 2.7 | |
Mobile Content Usage
In December 2009, 63.1 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, up 2.1 percentage points from three months prior. Browsers were used by 27.5 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 1.5 percentage points), while subscribers who played games made up 21.6 percent (up 0.2 percentage points).
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Mobile Content Usage 3 Months Ending Dec. 2009 vs. 3 Months Ending Sep. 2009 Total U.S. Age 13+ Source: comScore MobiLens |
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| Share (%) of Smartphone Devices | |||
| Sep-09 | Dec-09 | Point Change | |
| Total Mobile Subscribers | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Sent text message to another phone | 61.0% | 63.1% | 2.1 |
| Used browser | 26.0% | 27.5% | 1.5 |
| Played games | 21.4% | 21.6% | 0.2 |
| Used Downloaded Apps | 16.7% | 17.8% | 1.1 |
| Accessed Social Networking Site or Blog | 13.8% | 15.9% | 2.1 |
| Listened to music on mobile phone | 11.7% | 12.1% | 0.4 |
Source: comScore Press Release.
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These figures are MEANINGLESS
What was the sample size?
Who is paying this company for this "data"?
Companies like this are a dime a dozen (hellooooooo Gartner!). If Palm, RIM, Google, Microsoft or Nokia are willing to pay, no doubt this company could create a "study" that paints them in a favorable light.
Don't believe everything you read.
And in other news I hear Angelina Jolie just divorced Brad Pitt and will be marrying Tiger Woods in a Sunnyvale, in a service conducted by Reverend Ed Colligan and his Korean ministerial partner, Sum Yung Gai.
RE: These figures are MEANINGLESS
For exmple, last month I heard LiveFaith Resaarch Associates did a survey in which - for the 6th month in a row - the most popular smartphone was the Treo 650. Unfortunately, the only person YOU surveyed was YOU. Funny how easy it is to manipulate statistics to say what you want.
US-centric data
The international market is where the innovation can be more accurately measured and from an unscientific "survey" (the folks I see carrying handsets around in Asia), my take is Apple has a lock on the consumer side and RIM owns the corporate space for smart phones. Palm doesn't exist out here after the demise of the Treo brand which was as common as BBs are now. The other major player is Nokia across the entire phone spectrum from cheap dumb phones to the E and N series (the E72 is a very hot item as is the 5800 Express).
RE: US-centric data
Maybe you can answer this question for me. Why the hell do people outside of the US buy Nokia?
RE: US-centric data
With the emergence of smartphones (read: more expensive), plans like the US are more available where the phone is subsidized so you see a lot of people moving to Apple (a 2 year plan for a free iPhone is about US$45/month).
RE: US-centric data
What would be the price of a comparable plan for an unlocked Nokia smartphone? $45 per month sounds cheap for an iPhone plan.
-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G
RE: US-centric data
Which is why the average american is in debt up to his nose and the average asian-when he buys a home- does so in cash.
RE: US-centric data
The average US citizen's savings rate is at 6% of personal income, the highest in about 25 years. In 2006, it was between 0-1%.
Like it or not, every economy in the world runs on loans and debt. The struggle is keeping debt to a reasonable level as compared to assets. If everyone paid in cash and nobody took out loans, the economy would come to a standstill. Look at Japan in the 1990's.
-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G
RE: US-centric data
We can do better.
Peace,
E-T
RE: US-centric data
rpa wrote:
I wonder what the value is of such research in the US market where carriers control access to technology. There are many people in the US locked in a 2 year contract with the subsidized handset they got with their plan and not necessarily the handset they would buy in the market today as a stand alone purchase all other things being equal.
But the "research" is in market share, not innovation. So why the consumer chose the handset they're using isn't the point--just which companies get their handsets into the most consumers' hands.
rpa wrote:
The international market is where the innovation can be more accurately measured and from an unscientific "survey" (the folks I see carrying handsets around in Asia), my take is Apple has a lock on the consumer side and RIM owns the corporate space for smart phones.
Careful throwing "Asia" around so lightly. RIM barely exists in Japan, and the iPhone was quite slow in gaining traction. The second part seems to be changing. My dry cleaning lady recently spontaneously started asking me about my iPhone!
RE: US-centric data
uh oh. maybe it's time to short AAPL.
white rice?
RE: US-centric data
Japan is also a totally separate market for cellular technology as is Korea. They have their own flavor of CDMA and many very cool domestic phones making it hard for any foreign maker to penetrate. They like flip phones with huge screens.
RE: US-centric data
Peace,
E-T
RE: US-centric data
RE: US-centric data
RE: US-centric data
Only under the current ass-backwards monetary system. (Cue Gekko for his ignint whining.)
RE: US-centric data
if deadbeats would simply pay back the money they borrowed and honored the contracts they signed and lived within their means, we wouldn't have gotten into this mess.
what we have is a failure of personal responsibility.
RE: US-centric data
Peace,
E-T
RE: US-centric data
Con - your daily diet of microwave pizza, pepsi, and twitter has turned your brain to atrophied mush and reduced your thought process to 140 characters or less.
RE: US-centric data
in fact, i see a future for you where you do nothing but lay in bed all day twitching, awash in your own caked urine and fecal matter and are intravenously fed liquid pizza and pepsi along with a neural stream of continuous nonsensical twitter streams content and happy.
RE: US-centric data
Gekko wrote:
if deadbeats would simply pay back the money they borrowed and honored the contracts they signed and lived within their means, we wouldn't have gotten into this mess.what we have is a failure of personal responsibility.
Deadbeats like Goldman Sachs, General Motors, and AIG? Yeah, totally irresponsible the way they let themselves get underwater and turned to government welfare.
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RE: US-centric data
yes they directly or indirectly loaned money to deadbeats. if people paid back their mortgages and personal loans and didn't default, we wouldn't have been in this mess.
RE: US-centric data
I think it's unfair to lump Goldman with GM and AIG. If unassisted, GS could have stayed open. They even secured private financing during the crisis - remember Buffett and his multi-billion dollar stock purchase and 10% dividend?
GM, on the other hand, needs to go out of business immediately. They represent everything that was wrong with America for the past 25 years. Hubris. Lack of innovation. Molasses.
I keep reading articles that say, "throw out the old rules of investing!" They're claiming that stock and bond returns can't be predicted, government bonds aren't secure, and diversification doesn't help losses. Unfortunately, these so-called experts aren't realizing that the fault landed precisely on a lack of diversification. Practically every investment in the world in 2007 had a hand in the US mortgage market.
It's a failure of the common US consumer to make good on their debt obligations, and it's a failure of financial professionals to properly balance risk. Both had equal parts in this mess. Without both, the individual situations wouldn't have been a problem. If there's one lesson to be learned in all of this, it's that credit scores are, indeed, important.
-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G
RE: US-centric data
Peace,
E-T
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