iPhone 5 sales vaults Apple into first place over Android in the U.S. for smartphone market share

Strong sales for Apple’s iPhone 5 in the past 12 weeks has vaulted the iPhone suite of phones back to the No. 1 spot in the smartphone market share in the U.S., according to a data report from market research company Kantar Worldpanel.

iPhone handsets grabbed a 48.1 percent share of U.S. smartphone sales versus 46.7 percent for Android smartphones. 62 percent of those iPhone 5 sales were by existing iPhone owners upgrading their older handsets to the 5.

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