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ComScore latest report on the Smartphone market shows that Motorola and Rim are still the leaders with Apple showing a steady rise. Both the Apple iPhone and the Android show a steady gain in market share. Moreover, there seems to be plenty of room for more big gains. ComScore said just 17% of mobile phone users had smartphones at the end of 2009, up from 11% at the end of 2008. Palm and Microsoft -- the latter with its Windows Mobile platform devices -- continued their slide, with Palm garnering 6.1% of the smartphone market and Microsoft, 18%. Nokia, which has some 40% of the global smartphone market, didn't make it into the top five U.S. providers. However, the European-based handset provider did capture 9.2% of the overall mobile phone market in the United States. "A total of 234 million people age 13 and older in the U.S. used mobile devices in December 2009," comScore said in releasing the results for the fourth quarter of 2009. "Device manufacturer Motorola w...