Research in Motion is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the worldwide PDA Market. Worldwide PDA shipments totaled 3.6 million units in the second quarter, a 32% increase from Q2 last year. RIM, however, increased it’s worldwide shipments from 510,000 units to 840,000 units, 64.7% growth in Q2.
RIM’s growth just came in second by half a percent behind Microsoft.
Worldwide: Preliminary PDA Vendor Shipment Estimates by Operating
System, 2Q05
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2Q05 2Q04
2Q05 Market 2Q04 Market 2Q05-2Q04
Company Shipments Share(%) Shipments Share(%) Growth(%)
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Windows CE 1,653,638 45.7 1,006,923 36.6 64.2
Research In Motion 840,000 23.2 510,000 18.6 64.7
Palm OS 678,570 18.8 1,147,667 41.8 -40.9
Symbian 275,000 7.6 – 0.0 N/A
Linux 28,000 0.8 27,500 1.0 1.8
Others 140,000 3.9 56,710 2.1 147.6
Total 3,615,608 100.0 2,748,800 100.0 31.5
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Notes: Totals do not include smartphones, such as the Treo 650 and
BlackBerry 7100, but include wireless PDAs, such as the iPAQ 6315 and
Nokia 9300.