40% of Mobile Subs Have Smartphones

According to comScore, for the three-month average period ending in December 2011, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Some 97.9 million of them owned smartphones during the period, representing 40% of all mobile subscribers. Google Android ranked as the top smartphone platform with 47.3% market share. Apple was No. 2 with 29.6% of the smartphone market, followed by RIM with 16%, Microsoft with 4.7% and Symbian with 1.4%.