Palm claims larger share of smartphone market, has Centro to thank

What's this? Some joyous news on the Palm front? No need to Windex your spectacles -- the aforementioned handset maker has indeed managed to up its share of the smartphone market from 7.9% in the fourth quarter to 13.4% today, largely thanks to the popularity of its Centro. In general, analysts seemed quite pleased by the gains, noting that it (along with RIM) were able to take advantage of the 7.5% skid experienced by Apple during the same period. Despite the recent gains, Palm's market share is still down from 23% in Q1 a year ago, but considering the sweeping slump in cellphone sales of late, we'd say this should still go down as a victory -- however minor -- for the firm.

[Via Palm InfoCenter]

[roxics Posted Jun 3rd 2008 1:06AM]

My girlfriend and I both have Centros on Sprint. Great phones. I don't get what everyones problem is here and what they have against Palm, this is my first Palm phone ever. I did own and iPhone for a short time. The Centro is not an iPhone that's for sure, but for $99 on a network that I actually use and like, I can't go wrong. Now if the iPhone were on sprint that would be a different story, but it's not.

PocketTunes is excellent and has replaced my ipod, the Centro is easy to use, easy to install programs for and I can IM at the same time as I'm on the phone with someone else. That's great. This is not some killer feature rich smart phone. It does what it is designed to do very well, so who cares how old the OS is, or what it looks like. It just works.