Blackberry still trumps the iPhone in Sales

According to a recent IDC report, RIM’s Blackberry beat out the Apple iPhone 2-to-1 in the first quarter of 2008. Despite Apple’s bulling marketing and hype, it looks like the Blackberry is still king of the smartphones. Can’t believe it either.

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The report found Research in Motion selling the most smartphones in the United States for the first quarter of 2008 grabbing a majority share of 44.5% versus Apple’s iPhone which only got 19.2% (1Q2008). The trend is pointing towards RIM as well which only had 35.1% the previous quarter versus the iPhone’s 26.7% (4Q2007).

In 3rd place is Palm with 13.4%, thanks to the introduction of the new $99PHP 5,810INR 8,390EUR 94CNY 721 Centro. Samsung took 4th place at 8.6%.

Apple is rumored to be launching the 2nd generation iPhone with GPS and 3G built-in as well as offering a subsidized price of $200PHP 11,737INR 16,950EUR 190CNY 1,456, hoping that it can get back more shares of the smartphone market from RIM/Blackberry.

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{source: Yahoo! News}

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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10 Comments

Bigbird says:

17 years ago

isn’t is obvious! they have different target market.
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Abe Olandres says:

17 years ago

But doesn’t the iPhone have bigger target market since it’s mainstream? (Compared to the Blackberry which is just for business and not really for mainstream.)
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Lyle, RN says:

17 years ago

I read somewhere that the reason for the iPhone sales slump is due to limited stocks as Apple is announcing the iPhone 2 this month, consequently, people are holding off their purchase until the 2nd gen is announced.

Also, the figure does not include iPhones sold unofficially worldwide.
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Pinoy Apostolic says:

17 years ago

Hey! Hey! What about Nokia? Is it considered a smartphone or what? Mukhang naging Bokia na ah!
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blackberry boy says:

16 years ago

not a nokia fan nor an iphone, my blackberry curve is on its way from ebay! yey!!!
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krisma says:

16 years ago

Yay for blackberries! iPhone is too hyped up anyways. And nokia…mainstream phone like iPhone. Everyone has it! Might as well get a different phone. I have the iPod its exactly like the iPhone. Phone part is just missing.
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