BlackBerry Curve 83XX overtakes iPhone 3G in US smartphone rankings

The handset might've been surpassed in functionality and looks by its Curve 8900 successor, but nothing's got an edge on the BlackBerry Curve 83XX series in smartphone sales. According to NPD, the handset overtook the erstwhile champ iPhone 3G in the category for the first quarter of 2009, while BlackBerry's own Storm and Pearl handsets took 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 Q1 2008 to 23 percent in Q1 2009. Compared to the previous quarter, RIM's gained a whopping 15 percent share of the US market -- owning nearly half of the entire scene -- while Apple and Palm both dropped 10 percent as they prep for their heroic mid-year launches.

[smover Posted May 4th 2009 11:15AM]

Great ! Competition !

This may change with the iPhone mini, i can't wait for the coming new gen of devices :
- Nokia N97 (& friends) & OVI Store launch & the next Symbian !
- WinMo 6.5 devices & Marketplace launch !
- Palm Pré & unknown yet pals !
- ...big Android evolutions and cool devices to make this system counts ?

[(Unverified) Posted May 4th 2009 12:01PM]

since when the iphone was a smartphone?

[meeno01 Posted May 4th 2009 12:26PM]

The Storm had the third slot?! I guess the return rate wasn't as high as I kept hearing.

[(Unverified) Posted May 4th 2009 12:40PM]

In order for the Storm to be returned someone had to buy it in the first place.

[(Unverified) Posted May 4th 2009 1:17PM]

The only reason they took the 1st,3rd, and 4th position is because of the BOGO promotion by Verizon Wireless. If they were not BOGO, this never would have happened.

[metric Posted May 4th 2009 10:51PM]

Kinda like the only reason the hypePhone is #2 is because your average consumer is a moron who doesn't realize they can't multi task, take videos, or download anything that Sir Jobs doesn't approve?

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