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51.8%

51.8% -- smartphone os market share for Android (US smartphone market) (2012-06)

Name: Smartphone Os Market Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-16

2012-06 · Nielsen

Android led the US smartphone market with 51.8% of US smartphone owners using an Android OS handset.

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Value

51.8%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2012-06

Entity

Android (US smartphone market)

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

Nielsen Primary Tier B

http://www.fieldaware.com/2012/07/17/smartphone-popularity-grows/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2012-06 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Smartphone popularity grows

Original Research

Nielsen · Original study ↗

Methodology

Nielsen research on US smartphone owners, cited by FieldAware blog post

Methodology documented

Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2012-06 (current)	51.8%
2012-11	46.9%	-9.5%

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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Android (US smartphone market): 51.8% smartphone os market share. Source: Nielsen (2012-06). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/android-us-smartphone-market-share-2012

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