Apple has extended its lead as the top U.S. smartphone-maker, by grabbing another 3.5% of total market, according to ComScore's latest data.
The Cupertino, Calif. giant captured a formidable 37.8% of the U.S. market during the three-month average period ending January 2013, leaving its competitors in the dust. (ComScore compares stats from this period to the three-month average period ending October 2012.)
Rival Samsung clocked in at 21.4%, followed by HTC, Motorola and LG with 9.7%, 8.6% and 7%, respectively.
We'll see if circumstances change once sales of new flagship handsets from HTC and LG start showing up in these numbers, but at the moment, the U.S. smartphone race is quickly becoming a two-player game.
In terms of the top smartphone platform, Google's Android ranked number one in the three-month average period ending in January 2013, with 52.3% market share; but it lost 1.3% as compared to the three-month average period ending in October 2012. Apple, which rose 3.5% to 37.8%, followed in second place. The other competitors -- BlackBerry, Microsoft's Windows Phone and Symbian -- all lost market share, trailing far behind.
Things might change due to the new BlackBerry Z10 and Nokia's recently announced Lumia 520 and 720, but for now, Windows Phone and BlackBerry are slowly but surely bleeding market share.