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Study: iPhone Outranks Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Still King in North America

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 10:29 AM

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ComScore has released some survey stats on North American smartphone users gathered in October, revealing that BlackBerry still has the largest penetration, and that iPhone maintains second place and the strong lead over Windows Mobile it has had since 2007, according to other metrics. Here’s a quick rundown of the October numbers:

  1. BlackBerry: 14,963,238 users
  2. iPhone: 8,970,049 users
  3. Windows Mobile: 7,131,797 users
  4. Palm OS: 2,843,534 users
  5. Symbian: 1,297,052 users
  6. Android: 1,020,364 users

It’s a little sad to see Android’s eentsy, teensy little bar and modest growth, despite showing so much promise in the last six months, but maybe 2010 will see a change in the wind. If it’s any consolation, webOS didn’t even get enough respondents to merit an entry on the chart. iPhone’s progress is perpetually impressive, but RIM’s looks just about on par, and they have a nice head start to boot.

[via FierceDeveloper]

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Simon Sage

Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.

  • anis2913

    This number has to be wrong….more than a million just g1′s have been sold!

  • Simon Sage

    Yeah, this was based on survey data, so I gather it’s ComScore going out and asking people what phones they use, then projecting the proportions to the full market size. Take it all with a grain of salt.

  • Marcus Groeber

    Isn’t it a bit surprising to see a continuous (albeit small) growth for Palm OS when there no new devices shipping with it any more? Could it be that webOS is lumped in there?

    ciao marcus