Google Android Phones Gain in Popularity

According to a recent report from comScore, Google's Android is the fastest growing smartphone platform and made up 7.1% of the smartphone market in January 2010. 

RIM's Blackberry smartphone maintains a significant lead over Apple's iPhone with 43% and 25.1% market share, respectively. 

iPhones growth continues but at a much slower pace, increasing only 0.3 points in the last quarter. 

Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform slipped 4 points but still holds 15.7% of the market.  Palm smartphones, which appear to be dying a slow death, fell 2.1 points to 5.7%.  

	Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
	Oct-09	Jan-10	Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers	100.0%	100.0%	N/A
RIM	41.3%	43.0%	1.7
Apple	24.8%	25.1%	0.3
Microsoft	19.7%	15.7%	-4.0
Google	2.8%	7.1%	4.3
Palm	7.8%	5.7%	-2.1

Source: comScore: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/3/comScore_Reports_January_2010_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share