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Touchscreen Mobile Phone Adoption Grows at Blistering Pace in U.S. During Past Year
Touchscreen Device Market Up 159 Percent vs. Year Ago with iPhone Accounting for 33 Percent of the Market RESTON, VA, November 3, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the U.S., which showed a ...
Report: Touchscreen adoption skyrockets 159 percent with Apple leading the way
MobileBurn.com — A report from comScore says adoption of mobile devices with touchscreen displays grew 159 percent since last... August with the iPhone owning 32.9 percent of the market. Read the full story here. (more) Report: Touchscreen adoption skyrockets 159 percent with ...
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Report: Touchscreen Phone Ownership Jumps 159 Percent Over The Past Year
mocoNews — ... Thanks to the popularity of the iPhone, the number people who own phones with touchscreens in the U.S. has skyrocketed by 159 percent during the past year to 23.8 million users. Release. ...

Touch-screen phone use soars, iPhone on top
Crave: The gadget blog — ... Market research firm ComScore reported on Tuesday that touch-screen mobile-phone adoption is not only on the rise, it's growing at a rapid rate. ...

Touch-screen phone use soars, iPhone on top
iPhone Atlas — ... Market research firm ComScore reported on Tuesday that touch-screen mobile-phone adoption is not only on the rise, it's growing at a rapid rate. ...

33% of U.S. touchscreens are iPhones
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... There's a thundering herd of imitators behind it, but Apple's (AAPL) iPhone still dominates that fastest-growing segment of the U.S. smartphone market, according to a comScore report issued Tuesday. Smartphone mobile phone adoption in the U.S. grew at a breakneck 159% rate last year, comScore reports, easily outpacing the 63% growth of the broader smartphone market. By last August, nearly 34 million Americans were carrying smartphones, 23.8 million of them touchscreen devices. And of those touchscreen phones, 32.9% were iPhones. “The ...

There Are Probably More BlackBerry Storm Users Than You Think
RIMarkable — ... An interesting report from ComScore on Touchscreen Mobile Phone Adoption came out yesterday and a few things in the report kind of surprised me. ...

The iPhone’s Other Killer App [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... While conventional wisdom says the killer application for the iPhone has been the App Store, a new survey from comScore suggests that touch is quickly becoming the must have feature for smartphones. For the U.S., sales of touchscreen phones were up 159 percent from a year ago, an even larger increase than touchscreen smartphone sales, which were up 63 percent. Of the latter, the iPhone is the undisputed leader. ...

The iPhone’s Other Killer App
TheAppleBlog — ... While conventional wisdom says the killer application for the iPhone has been the App Store, a new survey from comScore suggests that touch is quickly becoming the must have feature for smartphones. For the U.S., sales of touchscreen phones were up 159 percent from a year ago, an even larger increase than touchscreen smartphone sales, which were up 63 percent. Of the latter, the iPhone is the undisputed leader. ...

100,000 Apps on iTunes. So?
Apple Forums & iPhone Forums, Mods, Hacks, News, Themes, Downloads, and more! | ModMyi.com - 4,711,751,911 — ... So if the diversity of applications isn't the competitive advantage Apple says it is, what's the iPhone's killer app? A study from marketing research firm comScore suggests a possibility: touch. Their report shows that the number of touchscreen-enabled phones grew by 159% last year - with a third of that growth represented by the iPhone. With arguably the best touchscreen interface out there. Android may yet challenge that title, which is why it would behoove Apple to continue improving its interface - ...

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