The AdMob Mobile Metrics report for November 2009 highlights the international growth of iPhone and iPod touch users, showing huge percentage jumps in Japan, France, Australia, China and other countries since the beginning of the year. Of course, most iPhone and iPod Touch users -- 50 percent of them -- are still located in the U.S., but Apple's mobile devices are growing much faster internationally.
This is especially true in Japan. Impress' numbers show that iPhone now holds 46.1 percent of the smartphone market in Japan; an enormous number considering that once upon a time, iPhone sales were rather slow in that country. As for the competition, Sharp's still doing well with their W-ZERO3, but the way things are going, the iPhone and the iPod touch will soon get lonely at the top of the Japanese smartphone food chain.
Check out the entire report from AdMob here, and a translated report from Impress here.