Nielsen’s quarterly mobile market numbers are out. For Q1, 2012 Nielsen reports that smartphones are the weapon of choice for 50.4% of the total U.S mobile subscribers. Women edging out men on smartphone ownership (50.9 : 50.1 percentage respectively). Android continued its dominance by powering nearly 48.5% of U.S smartphones.

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comScore’s latest quarterly numbers for the U.S mobile market are out. Android gained 4.4 percentage point of market share from the previous quarter, and hence increased its total share to 46.3%. Samsung was the OEM leader with a 25.5% market share for this quarter.

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International Data Corp (IDC) forecasts that the global smartphone market would surge by nearly 50% in 2011. Burgeoning demand from consumers and enterprises alike who trade their feature phone for smartphones would cause the smartphone market to acelarate 4x faster than overall mobile phone market, according to IDC.

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Piper Jaffray predicts that Android smartphones would control over 50% of the market by 2015, with iPhone’s share pegged between 20-30%. That leaves around a 20% of the share space for other players to wiggle with. The firm goes onto state that perhaps both RIM and Nokia could be powered by Android software by then, and hence contributing to Android’s dominance. It’s estimated that Android would catch up with iPhone’s share by early next year with their 2010 global market share projected at 14.9% and 15.9% respectively.

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The Android platform gained 4 percentage points and grew its US market share to 13% for M-A-M, 2010 according to Comscore’s latest numbers. All other smartphone platforms lost market share this quarter whereas Android is the only one which displayed growth in the US market and at a rapid pace too. RIM still tops the list with 41.7% share followed by Apple and Microsoft at 24.4% and 13.2% respectively.

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