Apple’s iPhone 3G garnered 4 percent of U.S. cell phone subscribers in 2009, ranking No. 1 in single handset models, according to an Internet research firm. The iPhone beat the RIM BlackBerry and Motorola RAZR, which placed 2nd and 3rd.
However, when multiple models are combined under the same brand, LG (enV2 and Voyager) have 6.4 percent of U.S. subscribers while RIM (the Curve, Pearl, 8310, 8320, 8330 and 8350i) has 6.3 percent of American subscribers.
The research by Nielsen covers January through October and seems to expand on an survey by Internet metric firm comScore. That research found the iPhone leading Microsoft Mobile-powered cell phones in the U.S., 8.97 million users versus 7.13 million.
[Via Nielsen, AppleInsider]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
