document: Where 's that Verizon iPhone bump ? If Apple sold 1 million Verizon iPhones in February , it does n't show in ComScore 's data Click to enlarge . Data : ComScore If you look very closely at the Feb. 2011 data in the chart at right you will see slight uptick in the green line that represents Apple 's -LRB- AAPL -RRB- share of the U.S. smartphone market . It 's a subtle change . You might have to enlarge the chart -LRB- by clicking -RRB- to see it . It reflects , according to the ComScore data released Friday , an increase in the iPhone 's market share from 24.7 % in January to 25.2 % in February - a month , according to ComScore , in which the Verizon iPhone was the best-selling smartphone in America . I point this out because one of the great unsolved mysteries of the smartphone wars is the effect of the arrival in February of the long-awaited iPhone for Verizon -LRB- VZ -RRB- . Judging by ComScore 's data , it did n't do much to slow the advance of Google 's -LRB- GOOG -RRB- Android , whose U.S. market share rose that month from 31.2 % to 33 % . And I would argue that it puts the lie to claims in the press that Verizon sold 1 million iPhones in the first two weeks of February . Proving this is a little tricky , because Apple does n't break down iPhone sales by country . Moreover , what ComScore is reporting is market shares , not actual unit sold , in a market that itself is growing , according to Gartner , at a rate of more than 70 % per year . But here we go : Using Gartner 's numbers , 296.6 million smartphones were shipped to U.S. users in 2010 -LRB- up from 172 million in 2009 -RRB- , and 46.6 million of them were iPhones . That suggests that Apple was selling iPhones in the U.S. last year at a rate of about 4 million per month , and probably more toward the end of the year . Let 's assume , conservatively , that total smartphone sales in the U.S. was 25 million in January and February of this year . If it were true that the Verizon iPhone bumped Apple 's sales from 4 million units to more than 5 million in February , Apple 's share of the market would have jumped at least 4 percentage points , not the measly 0.5 % ComScore observed . This math here is pretty shaky , I 'll admit . But it jibes with some first-hand observations . I 've seen the kind of crowds that gather outside Apple Stores on those weekends that the company sells 1 million units of anything . Even if , as Verizon reports , 60 % of its initial sales were pre-ordered online , you would think if 400,000 people showed up to buy iPhones between Feb. 10 and Feb. 13 , someone would have spotted them . Besides , Verizon has been cagey - and Apple silent - about the size of the Verizon iPhone bump . If 1 million iPhones had been purchased first weekend , do n't you think - given Steve Jobs ' penchant for nice round numbers - that Apple would have issued a press release ? We may finally get some answers on April 20 , when Apple reports its earnings for the second quarter of 2011 . Tune in here for our analysis . Also on Fortune.com : Why are the Verizon lines so short ? Verizon halts iPhone orders . An estimated 100,000 units pre-sold Survey : 44 % of Verizon Android users likely to switch to iPhone on Day One -LSB- Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped -RSB-
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