BlackBerry Curve 83XX overtakes iPhone 3G
The handset is already outdated in functionality and looks of his successor Curve 8900, but nothing has an edge on the BlackBerry Curve 83XX series in smartphone sales. According to NPD, the handset over the erstwhile champ iPhone 3G in the category for the first quarter of 2009, while its own BlackBerry Pearl Storm and mobile phones, the third and fourth slots, with the T-Mobile G1 rounding out the ranks in fifth place. Overall, the smartphone market has grown from 17 percent of handset sales in the 1st Quarter of 2008 to 23 percent in the 1st Quarter of 2009. Compared to the previous quarter, RIM’s lush won 15 percent share of the U.S. market – almost half of the entire scene – while Apple and Palm both fell 10 percent, as they prep their heroic mid launches.
via engadget
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