iPhone 5 Sales Drive Apple to Smartphone Market Leader: ComScore

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Sales of the iPhone 5 helped place the company at the top of the market-share pile, followed by arch-rival Samsung and recently re-branded BlackBerry.

Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 36.3 percent share, while Google Android led as the top smartphone platform with 53.4 percent share, according to the latest report from IT research firm ComScore's MobiLens service, which tracked key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry during the three-month average period ending December 2012.

The number of Americans that own smartphones rose 5 percent since September to 125.9 million people