{"id":18925,"date":"2011-03-08T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-08T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T04:18:00","slug":"google-s-android-tops-blackberry-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/18925-google-s-android-tops-blackberry-in-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#039;s Android tops Blackberry in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">Google&#8217;s Android operating system captured the top spot  in the United States for the first time with a 31.2 percent smartphone  market share for the three months ending in January, comScore said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">RIM was next with a 30.4 percent market share, followed  by Apple with 24.7 percent, Microsoft with 8.0 percent and Palm with  3.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">According to comScore, 234 million Americans owned mobile devices at the end of January and 65.8 million owned smartphones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Samsung was the top handset manufacturer overall with a  24.9-percent share of the US market, comScore said, followed by LG with  20.8 percent, Motorola with 16.5 percent, RIM with 8.6 percent and  Apple with 7.0 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/317111-Android-tops-Blackberry-in-US\"><strong>Android versus Blackberry<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#039;s Android has surged past Blackberry maker Research in Motion to become the leading smartphone platform in the United States, market tracking firm comScore said Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}