Smartphones knock feature phones out of the ballpark

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Recently ditched your feature phone for a smartphone? You're not alone. Two out of three people in the U.S. who bought a new phone in the last three months opted for a smartphone, according to new data from research firm Nielsen.

During the second quarter of this year, "smartphone penetration continued to grow, with 54.9 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers owning smartphones as of June 2012," Nielsen wrote in a blog post today.

According to Nielsen, the smartphones of choice in the U.S. are Android, which has 51.8 percent of the country's market. Apple's iPhone is quite a bit behind with 34.3 percent. And, BlackBerry is in a tiny league of its own with only 8.1 percent of the smartphone population.

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