<p>Android sales have declined in the U.S., helping iOS regain the top spot among smartphone platforms sold in the three-month period ending in October, according to the latest research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.</p><p>The survey found iOS now has 48.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, an increase of 25.7 percentage points on the same period last year, while Android sales declined 16.6 percentage points to 46.7 percent of the market placing the platform behind iOS for the first time since April 2012.</p><p>The figures from Kantar are different from a recent comScore MobiLens survey that found that Android is dominating with 53.6 percent of the market after a 1.4 percentage point increase. Apple was in second with 34.3 percent of the market after a 0.9 percentage point increase. Both surveys rely on user interviews, but the comScore survey does not include the month of October, while Kantar's does.</p><p>The month of October is relevant to this study because this is when iPhone 5 sales took off after a late September launch. Kantar attributes Apple's double-digit rise in share specifically to the iPhone 5.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2018381/ios-tops-android-in-smartphone-sales-survey-says.html">Keep reading...</a></p>