Samsung keeps US market leadership even after iPhone 5 launch

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South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has maintained its market leadership in the US even after Apple launched the iPhone 5. Samsung’s lead in the US smartphone market increased 1.2 percentage points for a controlling 26.9 percent share. Apple’s smartphone market share grew from 17.1 percent to 18.5 percent, gaining 1.4 points following the launch of the iPhone 5.

Rounding out the top-five were LG, Motorola and HTC, all of which saw their market shares decrease from August. LG fell 0.7 percentage points to 17.5 percent, Motorola dropped 0.8 percentage points to 10.4 percent and HTC’s market share decreased from 6.3 percent to 5.9 percent.

comScore, a research firm, said that a majority of devices, 53.7 percent, were powered by Google’s Android operating system, which saw growth of 1.1 percentage points. Apple’s iOS market share increased 0.7 percentage points to 35 percent.

RIM’s BlackBerry platform ranked third with a 7.3 percent share, down from 8.3 percent in August, and Microsoft’s operating system dropped 0.6 percentage points to a three percent share of the market. It was followed by Nokia’s Symbian with a 0.5 percent share. The survey involved about 30,000 mobile phone subscribers aged over 13 in the US.