Companies from Korea overtake Motorola on the United States market

11th June, 2010 by adina
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Samsung and LG have ended Motorola’s reign as a top-selling brand on the US phone market. Motorola’s loss is slight, but big enough to place it third with 21.6 percent. Meanwhile, Samsung grew enough to reach the first place with 22.1 percent. LG is ranked second at 21.8 percent.

The influence of Research in Motion has also grown and pushed it from 7.8 percent in January to 8.4 percent in April, which has placed it on fourth place. Nokia has dropped a full percentage point, to 8.1 percent.

These changes did not act for the benefit of American carriers. Motorola is one of Verizon’s favorite phone providers thanks to the Droid. The carrier has lost a tenth of a point remaining at 31.1 percent of market share. AT&T has narrowed the gap thanks to a slight increase to 25.2 percent. It was supported by the Korean companies as well as iPhone strong sales. T-Mobile and Sprint are shoulder-to-shoulder at 12 percent each.

The study provided by ComScore reveals a picture of the usage habits in the United States. The development of the smartphone sector has determined an increase in the number of those people using more advanced features of those handsets. Text messaging has reached 64.4 percent, while web browsing is at 31.1 percent. Third-party applications are run by 29.8 percent of the users. The number of users playing games, listening to music or participating in social networks has also increased.


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