A Phone Call To Action

This week NPD reported on Q2’s smartphone OS market share. It was a big quarter for Android, which is now installed on one of every three smartphones sold in the U.S. Android’s gains clearly came at the expense of RIM, which dropped nine percentage points quarter over quarter, and has seen an even more precipitous drop from a year ago. And yet, even with smartphones now growing to account for 42 percent of the U.S. market, Samsung and LG continued to lead the overall U.S. handset market without a significant smartphone presence, certainly in relation to their feature phones.

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