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Articles tagged with: Rim and Blackberry Storm
RIM Unseats Apple in Smartphone Sales Ranking
According to The NPD Group, an aggressive "buy-one-get-one" promotion by Verizon Wireless helped rim's BlackBerry Curve move past Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009. rim's consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the prior quarter, as Apple's and Palm's share both declined 10 percent each. more
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Korean Handset Manufacturers Targetting 50% of US Market in 2009
South Korean mobile phone manufacturers are expected to take a 50% stake in the US handset market this year, according to Taiwanese market sources cited by DigiTimes. more
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Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of hits to its adserver platform in February 2009. more
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more
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Qualcomm Chips Powering the BlackBerry Storm Smartphone
..nder the primary touch screen to serve to provide haptic feedback. This allows one physical key press at a time, meaning there is no double-tapping capability with the Storm." On the other hand, the Storm is capable of roaming with more operator more
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BlackBerry, iPhone Battle Raging On
..accelerated momentum for RIM in 2009. more
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Research In Motion Lowers Q3 Revenue Forecasts
..n currencies relative to the U.S. dollar in the quarter. The remaining difference is primarily due to lower than estimated unit shipments of existing products, which RIM believes is a reflection of general economic weakness in the United Stat more
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