As the 2009 calendar class draws to a finale, we look back at a class that was defined by smartphones and the iPhone’s archway nemesis, the Android OS. But, that doesn’t mean the iPhone has dropped of Americans’ radars. In fact, a new survey from Nielson crowns the iPhone as the most popular mobile earphone in the US for almost all of 2009. Based on Nielson’s numbers pool, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPhone was organism used by 4% of radio subscribers from January through October of this class, followed closely by RIM’s BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8300 lineup, which were used by 3.7% of citizenry with cellphones.
Surprisingly, Motorola (NYSE: MOT)’s bequest lives on in its RAZR V3 lineup. After pumping out billions of RAZRs piece their design squad seemed to sit idly by, Motorola has left a lasting bell ringer on the US wireless ecosystem. To this day, 2.3% of mobile phone users had a RAZR V3 variant in their pockets.
The survey also found that people who chose to go the pre-paid route tended to do so because the plans were more straightforward, that twenty-one of US households used only cellphones, and that 15 May Organization of households now had at least one smartphone.
Now, before you go off about how great the iPhone is and how it just makes horse sense that it’s the most popular earphone of 2009, consider this: if you clump together all of RIM’s BlackBerry phones into single massive category, they would easily occultation the iPhone’s marketplace share. But, then again, that’s not going to stop the ballyhoo machine from backup the iPhone, so wherefore should you?
[Via: AppleInsider]
