Usually when we talk about a hardware manufacturer grabbing market share from Research in Motion, Apple and iPhone tend to be a big part of the conversation. This time, however, according to Piper Jaffray analyst T. Michael Walkley, HTC and their line up of Snapdragon processor bearing Android and Windows Mobile devices are grabbing share from RIM as well as Motorola
Our April and early May checks indicated strong North America share gains for HTC with strong initial sales of the HTC Incredible at Verizon, combined with solid sales of the HTC Hero at Sprint and HTC HD2 and My Touch 3G at T-Mobile. We believe consumers overwhelmingly selected HTC based Android and Windows Mobile based devices due to its customizable UI, processing power with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 1 GHz processor and sleek designs.
Walkley continues on to say, “we believe the Bold 9700 continued to lose smartphone share at AT&T following a price increase last month to $199. Further, our checks indicated further share losses to Android products at T-Mobile and Verizon”.
The big question for me… Will RIM continue to loose share, maintain it’s share, or pick up share once BlackBerry 6 is released?
[Via ZDNet]
A hard thing to call right now- even with the upcoming release of BB OS 6, since Froyo and the iPhone 4 OS are both on the way as well. Initial reaction tells me, no; but we’ll wait and see.
If the rumors are true of the that the BlackBerry Slider 9800 will hit AT&T in June and AT&T ordered 1 million units that number may quickly change. Slider + OS 6 = Sales surge for RIM. The only downside is an AT&T exclusive on the device.
Either way I want to see the two devices (iPhone 4th Gen and BlackBerry Slider) go head-to-head in sales. If RIM pushed iPhone sales below 2009 release month that would be HUGE.
It’s a shame that RIM won’t have a new touch screen device launching on Verizon when BlackBerry 6 debuts. Kind of looks like the new OS was designed for devices with Touch Screens.
I’m in those numbers. Got my Incredible yesterday and the Blackberry Curve went into my “Drawer of Abandoned Cellphones”.
It’s an impressive little phone. Yes, there are things that a Blackberry does better (push email) and things that an iPhone does better (my iTouch screen is a tad more responsive) but overall this is terrific. The HTC Scenes and widget support make it very easy to put my most frequently used objects (phone numbers, apps, social connectors) right on the top screen. So, 99% of the time, the thing I have to do is just a click away.
Contrary to the reviews I’ve read, I have had no trouble with reception. What IS odd is that the phone can show 1 bar and you’ll still get excellent reception, clear calling with no drops. So I think the real issue there is a miscalibrated signal display. On the Blackberry, 1 bar was essentially equivalent to no service at all. On the Incredible, 1 bar means I still have great service. Go figure.
A couple of things I miss from Blackberry is synchronization with my work email, which happens to be on Lotus Notes. Even iNotes access should help there eventually. I also oddly miss the BerryBuzz app that lit the light different colors on my BB. That made everything color coded so that I knew at a glance if I had mail waiting in my work, my home email or my spam-magnet-for-vendors-only email. The Incredible has a light but I’m not sure if it’s used in the same way.
Some things I won’t miss from my Blackberry, the infernal hourglass that seemed to appear every time I had a calendar event, the lack of memory, the lousy browser, the only-sort-of-available-to-third-parties-GPS and the constant need to QuickPull the thing every couple of hours.
Maybe when my 2 year contract is up, I’ll take another look at Blackberry. Right now, I’m going to enjoy my shiny new toy.
Wow, you wrote what I would have wrote almost word for word. Only thing you left out that I miss on my BB is BBM , the actual physical keyboard, and the consolidated inbox. I am dealing with those issues though because everything else about the Incredible doesn’t make me miss my Tour.
I switched from the BlackBerry Curve 8330 to the HTC Incredible 2 weeks ago. The only thing about by BlackBerry that I really miss is BlackBerry Messenger because that is what most of my friends use. The only problem for me is that I miss it so much that I may have to switch back… I would probably miss the keyboard a little bit too if it texted more or had BlackBerry Messenger on it.
Ping from BB …??
I use it my self.
I am thinking about buying me an HTC droid version.
Ping is availeble just google for Palringo…
I realy works …
So ping is now for all phones available.
Palringo dosn’t work with BB that is a shame… But you can run the app on BB so no harm is done haha..
My friends use BBM though. I would need a BBM client for my Incredible and I don’t think they make it.
They don’t, and BBM will always just be on the blackberry. That is RIM’s exclusive feature as of right now no phone can match. I am considering the incredible as well becuase typing is amazing on it, soooooo i hate to say this but i am leaning towards it….but we’ll see, i’m mad verizon is launching the bold without 6.0 and at&t is getting it, but…i dunno lol
Loving the Incredible…