Recent sales figures have shown a 6.5 decrease in shipments of handsets in Q3 2009, when compared to the same time period in 2008. However, experts like Jake Saunders, ABI Research’s Forecasting VP claim that things will look better in Q4, with an estimated contraction of 4-5%. Q3 was all about recovery, thanks to the sales in Asia-Pacific and...
RIM’s BlackBerry Curve has just become the best selling smartphone in the United States, reaching 50% of the consumer market in Q1 2009 and clearly surpassing the iPhone’s sales figures. NPD Group claim that Curve’s success is due to Verizon’s aggressive promotional campaign, ruled by the motto “buy one, get one”. The...
Pick any month of the current year (except for those in the past) and you’ll have a theory regarding Palm Pre’s launch date in that month… So many rumours, so little reasons to believe them… Last we heard, Pre was getting ready to debut this month, but now it’s getting pushed to May once again. The reason? Sprint has frozen...
Incredible as it may seem, Nokia managed to sell half a million 5800 XpressMusic units in just a month, although the handset has only been available in limited markets. Also, the popular touchscreen musicphone will be making its debut in the UK today, so this means that even more tens of thousands of units will be sold in the following months. The...
As the economic depression affected great phone manufacturers like Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia, other brands continued to sell well. Among those, HTC had a superb third quarter and they managed to get a record revenue of $528.6 million in November. They even threw a party to celebrate this victory. Wondering why they did so well? Well, mentioning...
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