ComScore: iPhone up to 35 percent of US smartphone share in November, Android steady

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Smartphone launches sometimes have to build up steam before they can go full speed ahead. Apple might be learning this first-hand, based on [ComScore's](http://www.engadget.com/tag/ComScore/) figures. After a [lackluster October](http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/30/comscore-android-us-market-share-kept-growing-in-october/), the company's just-reported November smartphone market share in the US was up sharply, to 35 percent; while the spike isn't directly credited to the [iPhone 5](http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/18/apple-iphone-5-review/), rapidly growing availability of the company's newest smartphone certainly didn't hurt. Android was still comfortably ruling the roost at 53.7 percent, although its share was only a slight increase over October. As such, most of Apple's gain during the month came from smaller rivals' pain.

It was a more familiar story among individual phone makers. Samsung had a comfortable lead at 26.9 percent of the larger American cellphone market in November, while Apple padded its advantage over a sinking LG to hit 18.5 percent. With Motorola and HTC also on the downward slide, the US market this fall was increasingly mirroring its global counterpart, where it was really [Apple and Samsung's](http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/11/idc-samsung-and-apple-rule-connected-device-share/) game to play -- others might have to be content watching from the sidelines in the future.

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**Source:** [ComScore](http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/1/comScore_Reports_November_2012_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+comscore+%28comScore+News%29)

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