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Analytics company StatCounter today published ^[2] the result of the new research on mobile Internet usage in January 2013. Last month iPhone users held the number one position, while Nokia experienced a considerable decline in 2012.

Nokia’s share of mobile web usage decreased from 37.67% in January of 2012 to 22.15% this year, while Apple moved into the number one spot for the first time despite seeing a decline of 2.81%. Apple’s iPhones accounted for 25.86% of mobile internet usage last month, down from 28.67% a year ago. Nokia was moved into third place, while Samsung gained 7.85% share and took the number two spot. It is important to note that StatCounter doesn’t count iPads as mobile devices.

As for mobile platforms ^[3], StatCounter’s research showed that Android took 37% of the global OS share last month compared to 33.19% in December. iPod and iPhone held 25.85% of the market, up from 23.26% in December. In contrast to StatCounter, analytics firm NetApplications included iPads in its stats for January that show that iOS accounted for 60.56% of the market during this month (pictured below).

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