Android eating up Apple's, Rim's, Microsoft's and Palm's Market share.

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ComScore’s MobiLens service, comes out with its new findings and its all good news for Google. Google's Android mobile operating system has managed to grab addition share of the mobile OS market at the expense of other leading providers of platforms for smartphones. As of May 2010, Google Android was installed onto 13% of all smartphones in use in the U.S.

For the 3 month average period ending in May, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 22.4% of U.S. mobile subscribers, up one point from the preceding three month period. LG ranked second with 21.5% share, followed by Motorola (21.2% share), RIM (8.7% share, up 0.5%) and Nokia (8.1% share).

Smartphones are used by 49.1 million people in the U.S. which is about 21% of all mobile phones, up 8.1% from the previous period. RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 41.7% share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.4% share and Microsoft with 13.2%. Google saw significant growth during the period, up 4.0% to capture 13.0% of smartphone subscribers, while Palm rounded out the top five with 4.8%. Despite losing share to Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow.

Being an Open Source software many Mobile makers are making android OS compatible phone which it giving it a cheap deal to the consumers trying to provide as many as features as possible.

(comscore.com)

Android eating up Apple's, Rim's, Microsoft's and Palm's Market share.