According to a comScore, Inc. MobiLens report, 49.1 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in May 2010, up 8.1 percent from the corresponding February period.

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During this period, RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 41.7% percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, down slightly from 42.1%. This was followed by Apple down from 25.4% to 24.4% percent share.

Microsoft also dropped from 15.1% to 13.2% percent. Google saw significant growth during the period, up 4.0 percentage points from 9% to 13.0% of smartphone subscribers. Palm rounded out the top five with a decrease from 5.4% to 4.8%.

Despite losing share to Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow.

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