First-time smartphone owners choosing Android: comScore

The majority of new smartphone owners have chosen a device running Android as their first smartphone.

According to a new study by market researcher comScore, 61.5 percent of feature phone owners who purchased a smartphone in the three months ending in April chose a device on Google?s Android platform. A further 25.2 percent opted for an iPhone.

Smartphones running Microsoft?s Windows Phone platform and Research In Motion?s BlackBerry accounted for 7.1 percent and 4.8 percent of Americans swapping from a feature phone to a smartphone respectively.

Close to half (47.5 percent) of all feature phone owners in the US who purchased a new device in April made the jump to a smartphone, up from 38.0 percent from the year before.

?The growing number of smartphones available to consumers, accompanied by the decrease in price points and surge in mobile media content, have made smartphone ownership possible and desirable for many more Americans,? said Mark Donovan, comScore SVP of Mobile. ?Within the year, we expect to see smartphone owners become the mobile majority, a milestone that represents not only the evolution of the mobile landscape but highlights the enormous potential for marketers as these powerful, ubiquitous devices open new opportunities to reach a growing audience of consumers.?

Earlier this year market analyst Nielsen reported that smartphone ownership had eclipsed mobile phone ownership in the US (comprising 54.9 percent of all US mobile subscribers as of June 2012).

Despite the trend towards smartphone ownership in developed countries including the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, market researcher IDC forecast that ?feature phones will still comprise 61.6% of the total mobile phone market this year? in a report published in June. ?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/first-time-smartphone-owners-choosing-android-comscore-110041772.html

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