Nielsen: half the phones in the U.S. - Smartphones

According to the agency Nielsen, who has conducted market research of U.S. phones in February this year, the share of "smart" vehicles rose to half of all working in the mobile networks of the country. The exact number at the end of February is a little less than 50% - 49.7%. Thus, an increase was recorded among smartphone users, 38%. In 2010, the growth of smartphone users was slightly lower - 36%. It may be noted that this market has a tendency to sustainable growth, and therefore achieve the milestone of 50% of users have been predictable. Increasing the number of smartphones on the background of reducing the number of simple phones will continue, because in the last quarter, two of the three phones sold in the U.S. were smartphones. Also, there are no stunning news in the spread of mobile operating systems. 48% of all smartphones are running Android, and 32.1% - with iOS. The trend of the last three months, get the following: 48% purchased Android-smartphone, and 43% - iPhone. Thus we can say that the share of smartphones running Google's stabilized and devices from Apple will still grow. In third place is the prevalence of BlackBerry, but those only 11.6%. The share of all other operating systems accounted for 8%. Share and smartphones from RIM, and the rest will fall - for the last quarter BlackBerry purchased 5% of the buyers, and all the other - 4%.