Motorola, RIM rule U.S. mobile market, Google sees greatest growth

Today comScore released its latest U.S. Mobile Subscriber Share report, which measured U.S. mobile phone and smartphone market share between November 2009 and January 2010.

Motorola maintains a 22.9 percent share of the overall U.S. mobile phone market, a 1.2 percent decrease from October 2009. LG follows Motorola with a 21.7 percent share (down .3 percent), followed by Samsung (21.1 percent), Nokia (9.1 percent), and Research in Motion (7.8 percent).

Research in Motion (RIM) maintained the #1 spot in the smartphone market with with a 43 percent share, up 1.7 percent since October 2009. It's followed by Apple, which saw a .3 percent increase to a 25.1 percent stake, Microsoft, which dropped 4 percent to 15.7 percent, Google, which gained 4.3 percent to a 7.1 percent share, and Palm (5.7 percent).

The report also found that 63.5 percent of mobile subscribers use their devices to text message, 28.6 percent use their browser, 21.7 percent play games, 19.8 percent download apps, 17.1 use social networks, and 12.8 percent use their devices to play music. [via comScore]