comScore (SCOR) Reports Key Trends In U.S. Mobile Phone Use; Google Android (GOOG) Continues Growing Share

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending January 2012. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.4 percent market share. Google Android (Nasdaq: GOOG) continued to grow its share in the smartphone market, accounting for 48.6 percent of smartphone subscribers.

For the three-month average period ending in January, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices.

The number of U.S. smartphone subscribers surpassed the 100-million mark in January, up 13 percent since October to 101.3 million subscribers. Google Android ranked as the top smartphone platform with 48.6 percent market share (up 2.3 percentage points) followed by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) with 29.5 percent market share (up 1.4 percentage points). RIM (Nasdaq: RIMM) ranked third with 15.2 percent share, followed by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) (4.4 percent) and Symbian (1.5 percent).

In January, 74.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, up 2.8 percentage points. Downloaded applications were used by 48.6 percent of subscribers (up 4.8 percentage points), while browsers were used by 48.5 percent (up 4.5 percentage points).

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