Google's Android has captured more than 50 percent of the U.S. smartphone market for the first time, according to Tuesday stats from comScore.
The mobile OS had 50.1 percent of the market as of February 2012, up from 46.9 percent in November and 48.6 percent at the end of January, comScore found. Overall, that's an increase of 17 percentage points since February 2011, comScore said.
Apple's iOS came in second with 30.2 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, up from 28.7 percent in November.
The remaining mobile OSes in the top five, however, saw a dip or no movement in the last few months. Research in Motion's BlackBerry platform dropped from 16.6 percent in November to 13.4 percent market share in February. Microsoft also sank from 5.9 percent to 3.9 percent, while Symbian was flat at 1.5 percent.
Will Windows Phone see some pickup this weekend when Nokia releases its high-end Lumia 900 smartphone? For more, see Apple iPhone 4S vs. Nokia Lumia 900: AT&T Smartphone Showdown.
Late last month, Nielsen said that Android was on almost half of all U.S. smartphones at 48 percent.
On the handset maker front, Samsung remained the top manufacturer with 25.6 percent of the U.S. market, though that remained unchanged from November.
LG came in second with 19.4 percent, a 1.1 percent dip, followed by Apple, which saw a 2.3 percent boost to 13.5 percent in February. Rounding out the top five were Motorola and HTC with 12.8 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively.
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