Apple Leads U.S. Smartphone Market, But Android Is Top OS

While Samsung sits atop the global smartphone market, things are a little different here in the U.S., where Apple currently leads the pack, according to new data from comScore.

As of February, Apple ranked as the top phone maker with 38.9 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, up 3.9 percentage points from November. Samsung took second place with 21.3 percent market share, up 1 percent.

Rounding out the top five were HTC, Motorola, and LG, all of which lost share in February. No. 3 HTC dropped 1.7 percentage points to nab 9.3 percent share while Motorola lost 1.1 percent to grab 8.4 percent; and LG took 6.8 percent, a 0.2 percent drop.

Meanwhile, Google's Android once again ranked as the most popular operating system as of February. However, Android's share of the market dropped exactly 2 percent to 51.7 percent. Apple, on the other hand, saw its iOS platform increase 3.9 percent to grab 38.9 percent share.

BlackBerry came in third with 5.4 percent share, a 1.9 point drop, while Microsoft increased 0.2 points to nab 3.2 percent and take fourth place, and fifth-place Symbian remained flat with 0.5 percent share.

Overall, 133.7 million people in the U.S. now own smartphones, comScore said, or about 57 percent of the country, up 8 percent since November.

The smartphone race could shift in the coming months, as a number of high-profile Android phones hit shelves, including the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4.

Meanwhile, it looks like the Apple faithful are going to have to wait a few more months for a new iPhone. A report this week from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple will release its next smartphone this summer.

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