Android, BlackBerry OS See Growth, iPhone OS Is Stagnant

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Market research firm comScore released their report of the smartphone mobile OS market for January 2010 and compared it to their numbers from October 09. While BlackBerry OS and Android saw growth in that time, the iPhone OS suffered little growth. Likewise, both Palm and Microsoft saw themselves lose marketshare.

Google’s Android platform was the big winner from October to January. They gained 4.3% market share in those months. RIM’s BlackBerry OS came in second, gaining a narrow 1.7%, but they managed to keep their lead in the top spot. Apple saw very little growth with only 0.3% in market share gain.

Not unsurprisingly, Microsoft and Palm were the loser. Microsoft’s Windows Mobile lost 4% while Palm’s webOS lost 2.1%. It’s worth noting that this report only covers the United States, so Nokia’s Symbian, a popular smartphone OS in the rest of the world, isn’t even represented on the report.

RIM’s gains could be seen as Microsoft and Palm’s loss. The BlackBerry enjoys the reputation as the king of the business smartphones and many business users could be evacuating Windows Mobile and webOS for those platforms. Android’s gains are the most interesting. Until recently, most Android phones have been fairly expensive, with Google even saying they sell less than 50,000 Nexus Ones a month. But as cheaper and cheaper Android phones come out, the mobile OS could spread.

Over all, RIM has the largest marketshare with 43%. Apple is next with 25.1%. Microsoft has 15.7%. Despite their growth, Android si fourth with 7.1% and Palm’s dead in the water with 5.7%.