iPhone4 sales give a boost to Apple in US

BANGALORE, INDIA:According to a new comScore report  Android has officially overtaken RIM as the leading US mobile phone platform but Apple is gaining eversince is stated Verizon iPhone 4 sales.

According to the report, the Verizon Wireless version of its iPhone 4 outselling all other smartphones in the month of February.

Last November, handsets loaded with Android came in with the second largest share of the smartphone market, with 26 percent, according to comScore’s count. That ranked Android just behind Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices, which had 33.5 percent as of November. As of February, however, Android has rocketed to the market’s top spot, with 33 percent market share – a 7 percent jump from November, and the largest fluctuation, up or down, of any smartphone platform.

RIM dropped 4.6 points, to 28.9 percent, landing the BlackBerry maker in the number two spot. Apple saw its market share rise slightly, to 25.2 percent, up from 25 percent. In both November and February, Apple came in third. Despite the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft dropped from 9 percent to 7.7 percent. And HP’s Palm fell from 3.9 to 2.8 percent.