According to a report released Wednesday by the Nielsen Company, a market research firm, 30 percent of all mobile phones in the United States are now smartphones as customers move away from standard-issue mobile devices. The trend is expected to continue as consumers jump to the Apple iPhone, Google Android platform and the new Windows Phone 7 devices.The report found the iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry are “caught in a statistical dead heat with 27 percent of smartphone market share in the U.S.” They were followed by Android, which commands 22 percent of the nation’s smartphone market.To read this report on The New York Times blog in full, see:
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/the-u-s-smartphone-race-grows/