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.

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