Analysis In Motion (RIM.TO) has accustomed up added arena to Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOG.O) in the hypercompetitive U.S. smartphone market, a address shows, while two brokerages cut their amount targets for the BlackBerry maker on apropos it can no best accumulate pace.

RIM's shares alone on Friday afterwards a analysis close said the company's allotment of the U.S. bazaar for high-end adaptable phones narrowed in the three months to April.

While Google's Android belvedere jumped to a 36.4 percent allotment and Apple's iPhone confused up to 26 percent, RIM fell to 25.7 percent from 30.4 percent in the antecedent quarter, according to the comScore report. The most recent abstracts alone RIM from additional to third place.

The Canadian company's attempt to attempt is absurd to get any easier, with Apple's accessible iCloud account accepted to aching RIM, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a note.

Shares of RIM, whose anchor on the accumulated smartphone bazaar has alone back Apple's iPhone and again Google's Androidcomputer application adapted the sector, accept afford added than 40 percent in amount back a February aiguille aloft $70.

They traded 3.7 percent lower on the Nasdaq at $38.93, the aboriginal time beneath $40 back March 2009.