Market research firm, NPD Group released stats of their Q2, 2011 from their ‘Mobile Phone Track’ report. According to them, Android solidified its lead to garner a 52% share of U.S smartphone market this quarter. iOS rose 29% year-over-year. Blackberry and Windows Mobile share were eaten away by Android and iOS.

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Statcounter, a leading online stats player published data on the mobile internet usage and finds that Blackberry overtook iPhone for the first time in the U.S in November 2010, while Android came in third. Globally, Symbian retained its No.1 ranking with the highest amount of mobile internet usage leading by a comfortable margin to its competitors.

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PageOnce, a financial account aggregator, who simplify personal finance on mobile, published some interesting data on smartphone users’ credit card spending and their monthly bills. An intriguing finding is that Windows Mobile users run up a monthly wireless bill that is nearly 25% higher than the average iPhone user. The study also looked at monthly credit card bills that smartphone users generate, and finds that iPhone users run up the highest credit card expense amongst all smartphone users.

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Foursquare launched its Version 2.0 of its popular app with interesting features today. It’s currently live only on iPhone, with Android+Blackberry Foursquare 2.0 apps in the pipeline. The Tips and To-Do features have been decoupled and shows up separately on the app’s navigational bar below and could be found on other screens too such as check-ins. Foursqaure also launched an easy to embed ‘Add to Foursquare’ button that links what the user finds on the web to their To-Do lists.

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IDC predicts that the global smartphone growth would spike by a further 10% than previously forecasted to add up to 55.4% this year vis-à-vis 09. Greater than expected demand for smartphones and the supply side catching up with new launches are the cause for the revised projections by IDC. The firm expects 269.6 million smartphones to be shipped by the end of 2010 compared to 173.5 million units shipped in 2009.

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Blackberry has long been the weapon of choice for execs in corporations, and preferred by the enterprise due to its strong security and data management features. But the enterprise tide is skewing towards other platforms such as iOS and Android, states Bernstien Analyst Pierre Ferragu. Saturation of the email market is contributing to the shift by enterprises to other platforms. Consumer/employee preference to other smartphones is another key factor. Nearly 3/4th of the firms surveyed are now using iPhones, Windows Mobile and Android run devices to access their email on the go

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BlackBerry App World is revamped with new features and the beta was released yesterday by RIM. The new storefront version now supports both credit card and Paypal billing options, while direct operator billing with partner carriers could come soon too, according to RIM. There’s also tabbed browsing where users could check out (iPhone app store-esque) Top 25 Free Apps, Top 25 Paid Apps and Top 25 Themes, along with new and updated apps. Another new feature includes support for QR barcode scan.

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Twitter’s official BlackBerry app is now available. The app could be downloaded onto your BlackBerry smartphones at blackberry.com/twitter. According to BlackBerry ‘To use Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones, you will need the following: 64MB BlackBerry smartphone ; 50KB of available BlackBerry smartphone memory ; BlackBerry® Device Software Version 4.5 or later’

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