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Smartphones in the U.S. - Statistics & Facts
The United States is one the largest smartphone markets in the world with one of the highest smartphone penetration rates worldiwde. In 2017, 68.4 percent of the U.S. population use a smartphone. This is a significant increase from the 2012 figure, when the country’s penetration rate stood at almost 40 percent. The number of U.S. smartphone users is estimated to grow to more than 220 million in 2017, which roughly corresponds to ten percent of the estimated number of all smartphone users worldwide for that year.
The United States is one of the biggest markets for the smartphone industry worldwide. In 2016 alone, smartphone shipments in North Americaamounted to more than 190 million units. Smartphone sales in the United States generated around 55 billion U.S. dollars in revenues in 2016.
Samsung and Apple are the two main vendors in the U.S. smartphone market. In March 2016, Apple and Samsung accounted for more than 50 percent of all smartphones sold in the United States. More than 70 percent of smartphone subscribers in the United States use either an Apple or Samsung smartphone in 2017. Almost all of the smartphone subscribers in the United States use the Android or iOS operating system on their smartphone. The market share of the Blackberry and Microsoft mobile operating systems stood at below three percent combined at the beginning of 2017.
Smartphones in the U.S. - Important statistics
- 1. Users & penetration
Smartphone users in the United States 2010-2021- +Smartphone penetration in the U.S. as share of population 2010-2021
- Share of mobile phone users in the U.S. that use a smartphone 2010-2020
- +Household penetration of smartphones in the U.S. 2013-2016
- Smartphone ownership in the U.S. 2011-2016, by ethnicity
- Apple iPhone smartphone users in the U.S. 2012-2016
- +Apple iPhone U.S. users by device family 2014-2016
- 2. Sales & shipments
- 3. Market share
- +Share of smartphone subscribers in the United States by manufacturer 2013-2017
- +Share of smartphone shipments in North America 2015-2016, by vendor
- +Share of smartphone sales in the United States by vendor 2016
- +U.S. unlocked smartphone vendor shipments 2014-2015
- +Share of smartphone sales in the U.S. by carrier and manufacturer 2016
- +Share of smartphone sales in the U.S. 2016, by carrier
- +U.S. smartphone subscriber share by operating platform 2012-2017, by month
- Market share operating systems U.S. smartphone sales 2013-2016, by month
- 4. Usage & consumer behavior
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