• VentureBeat, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:05 PM

Google's Android platform is showing huge gains in U.S. mobile market share, according to new comScore numbers. The data, which covered mobile usage from September to December, showed that Google gained a significant 2.7% of the market, moving from 2.5% in September to 5.2% in December. Palm, meanwhile, fell markedly from 8.3% to 6.1% over the same period. RIM and Microsoft each lost 1% of market share, with RIM dropping from 42.6% to 41.6%, and MS from 19% to 18%. Apple, for its part, gained 1.2%, from 24.1% to 25.3%.

According to VentureBeat, "Google's significant gains can likely be attributed to the release of the Motorola Droid and Droid Eris phones on Verizon, along with the ingenious marketing campaign that introduced those phones to the public," while, "The increased Android and Apple presence probably drove down Palm's share, and it also didn't help that Palm was practically silent for the second half of 2009."

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