Android has 47% Smart Phone Share

Some 97.9 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in December, representing 40 percent of all mobile subscribers.

Google Android ranked as the top smartphone platform with 47.3 percent market share, up 0.5 percentage points from September 2011.

Apple maintained its number-two position, growing 2.2 percentage points to 29.6 percent of the smartphone market. RIM ranked third with 16 percent share, followed by Microsoft (4.7 percent) and Symbian (1.4 percent). U.S. smart phone share


Globally, smart phone ownership is even higher, at perhaps 55 percent of users.