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First, a round-up of the quarter’s numbers: For comparison, here are a select few vendors’ smartphone reported shipments. RIM is the first to report and we’ll be hearing the the rest by the end of January. The number…
When mobile platforms are discussed, the conversation frequently turns to market share battles between Android and iOS. I’ve pointed out before that the problem with this reasoning is that market share in a market that’s…
Noteworthy data (with my notes in parentheses.) Research In Motion CEO Discusses F2Q2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript — Seeking Alpha
Following up on survey data showing that up to 25 percent of Americans have moved to smartphones, here is another survey (Comscore) which shows that US smartphone users are at about 23 percent. Comscore also surveyed…
It’s hard to get excited about the new RIM Blackberry Torch. It’s not exciting in a positive way and not exciting in a negative way. It’s just more of the same and the same is not all that bad. Then again, the same is…
Much has been made of the potential for Android to reduce the growth of iPhone. The iPhone seems to be doing very well and continuing to be supply rather than demand constrained. RIM however seems to be under significant…
Following up on my last post on how misleading US-only share comparisons can be, I decided to draw charts to visualize the comparison. As Android and iPhone compete in various ways, it’s hard to see which is the…
First quarter market share ranking of top mobile phone vendors according to Strategy Analytics: These numbers are shipments or sell-in, which may differ from sell-through or end-user purchases. RIM breaks into top 5 in…
Strategy Analytics said 54 million smartphones were shipped in the quarter, comprising 18 percent of the total handset market. via Smartphone Q1 shipments up 50 pct y/y -survey | Reuters.
“Officials at the WES 2010 keynote said that RIM has redesigned all of the core applications within the BlackBerry operating system. It also revealed that there are 41 million BlackBerry users, and 90 million BlackBerrys…