RIM leads US smartphone sales, Apple ousts HTC for second
Well here's a Shift, according to an NPD Group study, RIM sits atop the sales charts in the smartphone world and HTC doesn't even make the top five. During the period from January until July of 2008, 9 million sets were sold in the US for a cool $1.7 billion. Behind the mighty BlackBerry comes Apple's --the iPhone launch is being touted as the magic that helped ease them into second place -- followed by Palm, Samsung , and Motorola. The NPD Group goes on to mention that smartphone sales are up ten percent over the same period last year to 19 percent of all phones sold and that pricing is down seven percent to an average price of $185 per handset. Follow the read link for more tasty bits of number crunchery.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iErik @ Sep 9th 2008 11:50PM
yup, and iphone did alla that with one model.. iphone rulz (:
Valicore @ Sep 10th 2008 12:34AM
Regardless of your opinion of Apple, Inc., the iPhone, and fanbois, I think everyone should give Apple a pat on the back. Release a total of two phones in less than two years and become second ahead of big boys like Palm and HTC? I'm impressed at the moment.
iErik @ Sep 10th 2008 1:00AM
all bias aside, i am impressed as well, and continuing without bias, i think we can all admit there must be something special about it to be so successful. maybe its just me
PeterF @ Sep 10th 2008 3:36PM
Do you jerk off to pictures of Steve Jobs?
Sean @ Sep 10th 2008 4:58PM
@PeterF
Yes...yes he does.
Sofunnytom @ Sep 10th 2008 12:36AM
i call BS. I want a recount! who was paying these people? El Jobso?
Graham @ Sep 10th 2008 12:43AM
Okay... but the diamond and touch pro launch this quarter on atleast one if not two major US carears... Not sure how long these numbers are going to stick.... Plus this poll was finished right when the Iphone 3G launched... So ofcourse apple got another boom there. Not saying the Iphone doesn't deserve it, but this data, is a little skewed.
Mr Maze @ Sep 10th 2008 12:52AM
Well, the study only shows the first half of this year. It will be interesting to see what the end of the year results are. I do agree with Valicore though...
iErik @ Sep 10th 2008 1:02AM
"Well, the study only shows the first half of this year."
hmm, if your right then we need to take into account that apple pretty much stopped selling iphones the first half of this year
Skope @ Sep 10th 2008 6:52AM
Got a say that it's pretty amazing that Nokia got 47% market share of smartphones while it has like 2% market share in states.
lazylittleboy @ Sep 10th 2008 8:59AM
That's because the US is practically a 3rd world country when it comes to mobile phones. Europe and Asia have all the cool phones. C'mon, the majority of the Americans didn't even know much about Third Generation networks until that 2nd silly iPod with phone function put the term "3G" into it's name. Almost half the world uses Symbian, yet Americans know nothing about it since our carriers are sleeping with RIM, Windows Mobile, and Apple.
iErik @ Sep 10th 2008 10:26AM
nokia will never make it here, leave that crap for other countries
blameErik @ Sep 10th 2008 9:04PM
Agree with lazylittleboy. I think iErik has no idea what he is talking about or he is staying inside his little tree house and never come out to see the world.
iErik. You are one of the many fartboys that make people hate iPhone. Well done.
Budd226 @ Sep 10th 2008 1:00PM
I still don't consider the iPhone a smartphone, but I'm just a simple space chicken.
bdotwoods @ Sep 10th 2008 5:27PM
you and me both bud.
Ryan @ Sep 10th 2008 2:05PM
That's great, but the only problem is that the iPhone isn't a smartphone...
pxgnet @ Sep 11th 2008 8:15PM
This is great news, apart from Palm distributing WindoZe version. Micros&*t, is not even the game. The hardware is always great, their O/S always blows. No more candy coated turds for me. I'll stick with Apple, Palm O/S (old as it is) and Symbian...
And I agree with lazy little boy, Symbian is the most distributed o/s outside the US. e71 here I come...
perplexed @ Sep 11th 2008 10:52PM
I agree too, iPhone is not a smartphone, it's cool and obviously a status symbol, but a smarphone it is not.