|
Get the ICT news from C114 delivered to your inbox everyday.
1 TD-SCDMA 5 Huawei 6 ZTE 7 Ericsson 10 Nortel 11 Nokia 12 Blackberry 13 Android 14 LTE 15 ASB 16 UTStarcom 17 MediaTek 18 WiFi 19 WCDMA 20 CDMA |
RIM captures more than half of smartphone market-IDC
Updated:2008/9/10 14:04
Research in Motion captured more than 50% of the US smartphone market in the second quarter, up sharply from first-quarter levels, according to figures released IDC. Apple and Palm both lost share in the second three months of the year. The IDC numbers show that Canada-based RIM, maker of the wildly popular BlackBerry wireless device, held 53.6% of the US market for smartphones in the second quarter, up from 44.5% in the first quarter. According to Ryan Reith, a senior research analyst at IDC, RIM's strong market position was driven in large part by the recent release of two new BlackBerry devices, the Curve and the Pearl, for the Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless networks. Sprint and Verizon are the two leading operators of US wireless networks that rely on CDMA technology. Curve was launched with both networks in the second quarter of this year, while Pearl was launched with the two networks in the fourth quarter of last year. RIM launched the Pearl with AT&T Wireless and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, which both rely on GSM technology, in late 2006. It launched the Curve on those networks in mid-2007. IDC's numbers show that Apple's share of the US smartphone market tumble to 7.4% in the second quarter, from 19.2% in the first quarter, as consumers waited for the July release of the iPhone 3G to upgrade their devices. Palm, meanwhile, saw its market share fell to 10.8% in the second quarter, from 13.4% in the first quarter. Reith said Palm faced a particularly tough quarterly comparison since it launched its new Centro device on the Sprint network at an introductory price of $99 in the first quarter.
Source:AP News ,China Telecom in initial talks with RIM on introduction of Blackberry (2009-6-25) ,China Telecom: In Preliminary Contact With RIM On Blackberry (2009-6-25) ,RIM beats esimates and gives upbeat outlook (2009-6-19) ,RIM Forecasts Profit, Sales That May Miss Estimates (2009-6-19) ,RIM preps New Zealand BlackBerry app store (2009-6-17) ,RIM aims to cross categories with BlackBerry Tour (2009-6-16) ,Vodafone, Nokia and RIM bosses meet at OMS in London to talk App Stores (2009-5-22) ,RIM may work free from its rut (2009-5-6) ,RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip coming to Alltel in May (2009-4-24) ,RIM Squeezes BlackBerry Suppliers on Price as Economy Slumps (2009-4-13) |
Latest News
,Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google ,Alcatel-Lucent appoints Osvaldo di Campli President of its activities in the Caribbean and Latin Ame ,Microsoft¨s Bing to Include Twitter in Search Results ,Turk Telekom offering being prepared ,NSN: Alvarion's New WiMax Buddy ,NSN: Alvarion's New WiMax Buddy ,Alcatel-Lucent in Line to Win Reliance Deal ,Deutsche Telekom seeks asset swap for T-Mobile UK ,Nokia to launch Chinese Ovi Store, TD-SCDMA smartphone by the end of 2009 Hot News Review
,ZTE & Huawei to replace Datang¨s TD-SCDMA kit in Guangzhou for China ,China Mobile Fast-Tracks TD-LTE ,China's Huawei needs makeover to win big markets ,MIIT has approved McWiLL as a industry standard ,China Mobile Swaps Out Datang 3G Kit ,Ericsson confirms the launch of App store ,Vodafone pulls Google phone from NZ market ,Sprint: We'll Beat AT&T to 3G Femto ,LTE may be data-only, but still needs to support voice ,Huawei and ZTE cause major shakeup in mobile infrastructure market |