Android acquiring adhesive friction, Apple, RIM distillery dominate smartphone marketplace

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s green little automaton is gaining some ground in the smartphone market but it’s distillery way behind Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM), according to information released by comScore.

Thanks to the success of handsets like the Motorola Droid, Android has 9% of the U.S. smartphone marketplace at the remnant of February 2010. This is an step-up of 5.2 portion points since the last comScore report, released in Nov 2009. It’s a good sign for Google and Android fans, and I’d expect this trend to continue as cool new handsets like the HTC Incredible, Samsung Galaxy S and EVO 4G smasher the marketplace.

Apple’s staying consistent with its iPhone market share, as it continues to chronicle for about a quarter of all U.S. smartphones. I father’t expect Apple to lose market share any time soon because it has multiple prices points, a really good merchandising team and we’re sure to see some neat whatsis with the 4.0 software system that will pave the agency for the next-propagation iPhone this summer.

RIM whitethorn not be as exciting as Android or as trendy as the iPhone, but the BlackBerry is just killing it with 42.1% of the market. How are they doing it? They wealthy person a oceanic abyss endeavour base (they often deploy handsets to businesses in batches of thousands), have a diversity of devices on every carrier and they’re devising a bigger push into the mainstream market with big television system ads. The IntoMobile team is gears up for BlackBerry’s WES group discussion near the end of the month and all signs ar pointing to the introduction of the BlackBerry Pseudemys scripta.

As for the other players, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s dropping like a rock and now has 15.1% and poor Palm (NSDQ: PALM) only has 5.4%. Overall, there ar now 45.4 one thousand thousand smartphone users in the United States and that’s only going to grow as handsets get cheaper and as flattop’s aggressively try to get citizenry on data plans.

[Via comScore, lid tip to TechCrunch]