Android increased its lead over competitors in the U.S. market

         

Google Android mobile platform has increased the gap between konkuretov the U.S. market. In August, the share of operating system Google has made 32 percent of the total number of smartphones sold, according to a blog analyst firm Nielsen.

On the second and third place BlackBerry smartphones and iPhone with the indicators 26 and 25 percent respectively. In this month, their share has not changed, and the Android added to its index of 4 percentage points.

In this case, the total number of devices on the market Android ranked third (19 percent). Circumvention as a BlackBerry, and iPhone (31 and 28 percent respectively). However, over the past six months, the share of Android has almost doubled, while the overall share of BlackBerry, for example, fell by 5 percentage points (from 36 to 31 per cent). Apple has not managed to increase its share despite the release of the iPhone 4 in late June.

Note that Nielsen calculates the average of six months. Thus, the August data is based on sales of smartphones in the February-July 2010.

The U.S. smartphone market is different from the world. Thus, in the U.S. almost popular smartphones Nokia. However, the Finnish company is the largest manufacturer of smart phones (with a share of around 40 per cent), if we take into account worldwide sales.