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US mobile phone sales increase 5.3% in Q2 2008, Motorola still top in US, BlackBerry strong as ever

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2008-08-12 00:12:25 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Time and time again were seeing the mobile phone sector brushing off the harsh economic pressures that are affecting just about every other business in the world. And, following on previous reports that worldwide smartphone sales were seeing a bit of an uptick in sales volume, a new report from Strategy Analytics shows that cellphone sales in...
 
Tags: global smartphone market, smartphone market, market, double-digit market share, wireless market, cellphone market, iphone market, iphone, motorola
 
 
 
 
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Apples iPhone 3G is second best-selling US mobile phone, No. 1 US smartphone

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2008-10-06 20:04:22 by Will Park in IntoMobile
iPhone 3G Top US smartphone In a move that takes a page straight out of Motorolas RAZR playbook, Apple has rocketed to the top of the US sales-charts with their iPhone 3G. According to NPD, Apple has seen its iPhone 3G become the No. 2 best-selling handset in the US. Motorolas RAZR V3 still takes top billing as the overall best-selling mobile...
 
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Reliance on mobile phones growing in the US - study says cellphone use rising

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2008-04-07 18:42:39 by Will Park in IntoMobile
The US wireless landscape is something of a trip back in time. Our adoption of mobile services and network technologies is so slow it hurts. But, according to a recently published study, it seems that mobile phone reliance in the States is increasing Harris Interactive conducted four online surveys from October 2007 to January 2008 and polled a...
 
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RIM Blackberry Bold has BOM and manufacturing cost of US$169, iSuppli teardown reveals

2008-10-28 23:19:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
The new Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone represents RIM's first attempt to address consumers directly with a device that is as attractive to average consumers as to its core audience of corporate users. An iSuppli teardown analysis of the Bold shows that RIM has succeeded in offering a product with a full set of features...
 
Tags: blackberry, bold, blackberry bold, interface, blackberry interface, cost, blackberry line, blackberry predecessors, bold reveals
 
 
 
 
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Apple iPhone 3G trumps RAZR as best-selling handset in US

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2008-11-10 19:49:24 by Will Park in IntoMobile
Chalk up another win for Cupertino. With the mobile phone newcomer Apple having recently been declared the No. 2 global smartphone manufacturer, passing RIM on its way to the runner-up spot, it should come as no surprise that Apples iconic iPhone 3G is becoming increasingly more popular around the world. And, the iPhones popularity has seeped...
 
Tags: handset, handset sales, mobile phone, mobile phone sales, iphone, razr, mobile phones, phones, apple
 
 
 
 
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Report: RIM still leads US smartphone market, Apple takes second place

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2008-09-08 19:41:24 by Will Park in IntoMobile
All the doom and gloom surrounding the US economys downward spiral into recession apparently isnt enough to stifle the US smartphone market. While the rest of the US suffers from weak consumer spending, the smartphone market is a veritable shining star of hope For the January to July 2008 period, NPD Group reports that overall handset sales were...
 
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"World's Toughest Phone," Sonim XP3, Coming to US

2008-10-12 21:56:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
Their European phones have been dropped from a 13-story building and shot with guns, four times, but Sonim's ultra-rugged GSM cell phones keep on ringing. Now, the California-based company finally plans to bring their phones home to the US with the upcoming XP3, which will be available next March from several rural US carriers Designed for...
 
Tags: phone, sonim, sonim xp3, xp1 phone, xp1, gsm phone sales, xp3, sonim beasts, gsm phone maker
 
 
 
 
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iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US

2008-02-27 10:00:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
iTunes Customers Top 50 Million CUPERTINO, California Apple announced that iTunes (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an...
 
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Flagging economy hurts US handset sales - mobile phone sales down