The BlackBerry Is The Number 1 Smartphone In The World

For those who didn’t know already, the BlackBerry was the number one selling smartphone in the world last year. Of the 1 billion total mobile phones sold, 1.4%, or about 14 million BlackBerrys allowed Research in Motion to claim the top spot for smartphone manufacturers.

1.4% of the market compared to overall top dog Nokia, who sold about 40% of all mobile phones last year, is pretty miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Good news for RIM, however, is that the smartphone market grew by over 50% from the previous year compared to just 11% for cell phones overall and is the fastest growing segment with in the industry.

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Written by Robb Dunewood on May 22nd, 2008 with 9 comments.
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#1. May 22nd, 2008, at 12:03 PM.

Robb, this has nothing to do with this post…but please for the love of everything sacred, please change the images of 87xx and 71xx models at the top of this blog. Since those devices we have had the 81xx, 88xx, 83xx and now all the 9xxx stuff. Sorry for the digression (is that even a real word?).

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#2. May 22nd, 2008, at 2:20 PM.

I second AF’s position!!

The absolute number of 1.4% means little, the growth means a lot though. Also, it’s dumb to compare to Nokia as they sell a TON of entry level cheapo phones in emerging markets with tiny margins. This is not RIM’s game.

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#3. May 23rd, 2008, at 2:02 PM.

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#4. May 24th, 2008, at 10:15 PM.

I already knew BLACKBERRY was number one!!! these band wagons (ha ha ha ha including me) just didnt know it until later…ALTHOUGH i hate my 7100i i am switching to sprint for the curve, but im pissed i want the bold now!

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#5. May 25th, 2008, at 7:58 PM.

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#6. May 27th, 2008, at 2:11 PM.

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#7. May 30th, 2008, at 4:10 AM.

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#8. June 13th, 2008, at 6:58 AM.

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#9. July 22nd, 2008, at 3:27 AM.

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