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8 Million People in Canada Now Own Smartphones

comScore released data about key trends in the Canadian mobile phone industry for September 2011. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in Canada.

In September, 20.1 million Canadians ages 13 and older used mobile devices.

Device manufacturer Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 25.2 percent of mobile subscribers in Canada, followed by LG with 20.0 percent share and RIM with 14.3 percent share. Apple ranked fourth with 12.0 percent share of subscribers, while Nokia rounded out the top five at 10.1 percent.

8 million people in Canada owned smartphones in September 2011, representing 40 percent of the mobile market in Canada -- a gain of 7 percentage points in the past six months.

RIM ranked as the top platform with 35.8 percent of the smartphone market, followed by Apple at 30.1 percent. Google Android gained ground among the competition by doubling its market share to 25.0 over the past six months. Symbian ranked fourth with 4.2 percent share, followed by Microsoft with 3.2 percent.

Canadians use their mobile devices to access a wide variety of content. In September, 67.4 percent of the total Canada mobile audience used text messaging on their mobile device, compared to 88.1 percent of the Smartphone audience.

Downloaded applications were used by 40.9 percent of the total mobile audience, compared to 84.2 percent of smartphone subscribers.

Mobile browsers were another popular way of accessing mobile content, used by 36.9 percent of the total audience and 74.8 percent of the smartphone audience. 39.5 percent of the total audience and 79.3 percent of the smartphone audience used their phones to stay up-to-date on the latest news.

Other popular mobile behaviors included accessing maps (44.4 percent of smartphone subscribers), accessing bank accounts (28.8 percent of smartphone subscribers) and scanning QR codes (18.1 percent of smartphone subscribers).

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