Samsung remains top handset maker led by Galaxy Note 2

Samsung and Android are sitting pretty at the top of the smartphone food chain according to the latest comScore mobile marketshare report.
The September 2012 study shows Samsung growing to control 26 percent of global smartphone marketshare compared to 25.6 percent back in July.
LG comes in second despite dropping 1.1 percent, with its handsets making up 17.7 percent of the market.
Apple comes in third, though is closing in on second place with 17.5 percent smartphone marketshare. The iPhone 5 launch is no doubt helping Apple's surge, which grew by 2.1 percent since July, the largest increase for any OEM during that time.

The golden touch

Samsung's success can be attributed in part to the Galaxy Note 2 launch, which has already sold over three million units worldwide.
The 5.5-inch phablet has proven that larger handsets have a viable audience in the increasingly competitive smartphone realm, at least so long as it's packed with top-end specs that no smaller device can compete against.
Other OEMs are taking notice too, as HTC has a rumored 5-inch phablet of its own on the horizon. By the way, HTC ranked fifth for OEM marketshare at 6.2 percent, with Motorloa's 10.9 percent sitting just out of reach in fourth.

OS race is keeping pace

When it comes to smartphone operating systems, Android still claims the top spot for Google with a 0.9 percent increase to 52.5 percent of the smartphone market.
Apple comes in a healthy second, with iOS growing nearly 2 percent to reach 34.3 percent of all users.
Unsurprisingly, RIM's Blackberry and Microsoft's Windows Phone are both down as of September, with 8.4 percent and 3.6 percent of the smartphone market respectively.
Blackberry took the hardest fall - dropping 2.3 percent since July, which is conveniently almost the same percentage as Apple's market growth for the quarter.
It will be interesting to see if the launch of Windows Phone 8 can help bolster Microsoft's place in the mobile market, at least in to a double digit marketshare.
Android and iOS may have too big a lead for WP8 to truly disrupt the market though, with a gap that only widens with each new quarterly report.

Via comScore