Going by the most recent monthly mobile data traffic report by AdMob, over 50 percent of the global mobile data traffic is held by the popular Apple iPhone, which has further fortified its dominance with an increase in its share from 43 percent in September to 50 percent in October.

As per the AdMob report, the second place was held by Symbian, whose share fell to 25 percent, from the earlier 29 percent.

The market share of the third-ranked Google Android increased from 10 to 11 percent; while, with a fall from 8 to 7 percent, RIM's BlackBerry ranked fourth; and the fifth-ranking Windows Mobile's share fell from 5 to 3 percent.

Commenting on the latest figures, AppleInsider's Prince McLean wrote: "Octobers' worldwide figures for hardware manufactures closely reflected those platform numbers."

McLean further added: "Apple's hardware numbers as the only iPhone vendor are identical at 50 percent, while Nokia phones represented nearly all of the Symbian traffic and HTC accounted for almost all of the Android and Windows Mobile share. RIM and Palm also act as the exclusive providers of their own platforms as well."

While the mobile data traffic share trend is almost the same in both US and UK markets, Apple and HTC have advanced in the US at the cost of smaller manufacturers and platforms, most of which, other than RIM, lost market share during October.