BlackBerry Leads, iPhone Follows U.S. Smartphone Sales

To bad RIM cant get non data phones going on the side. That do not require a BB plan.

 

I really think Nokia would love to have larger sales in the USA. But it seems like they cant attract people like they used to. I know in the late 90's into the early 2000's nokia phones were everywhere. I know the nokia e71 should be coming to AT&T hopefully that will be a hit and take off.

 

I'm not surprised RIM is doing so well. They have a variety of phones to suit different tastes, they have phones will all major carriers, and they wisely refresh older models.

With the Bold coming out soon, RIM continues to improve itself. The Thunder should be interesting since it will be a Verizon exclusive here in the States. I wonder how the "exclusive carrier" approach will work for them with the Thunder.

The iPhone is good, but it needs to be refreshed. Hopefully the new version will address many of the shortcomings of the first version.

Sprint has a "Instinct versus iPhone" comparison teaser on their site. All of the things the Instinct beat the iPhone on are differences that the new version will improve on. The Instinct is a new phone. The iPhone is a year old. Not really a fair comparison. But the Instinct should do quite well for Sprint and Samsung.

As far as the lack of Nokias. I can't remember the last time I saw a Nokia smartphone on AT&T's site. They seem to be the only carrier getting these phones. So I'm not surprised Nokia was a non-factor in this report.

 

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i wonder where the treo fits in here.

 

And to imagine if RIM woundnt have won that law suit a couple years ago they would have been done.

RIM was smart they started out with Corporate MS Outlook support thru a secure server. At my company there was a internal document that says do not use Iphone for email because of the previous lack of security.

With Iphones latest update it takes advantage of MS Outlook so that will help.

About Nokia the were my favorite phones for reliable and call quality but I have been disappointed in their lack of Smart phones. I have a Nokia 6682 which is sort of a Berry Knock off and is a great phone with tons of 3rd party apps due to the openness of Symbian.

I still cant belive you cant do MMS on an IPHONE.

 

Third..................

 

Treos are done IMHO.
Non-touch screen devices will soon be taking over the touch screen ppc devices.
Treos are unstable. Had one, and constantly had to restore from backups.

BB's are still in the lead, but their sales aren't what they used to be, no?

 

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my sprint centro is a nice phone. better than a bb for my use. just my opinion of course.

 

Agreed. I have had both a Treo WM and two Treo's with Palm OS. Of the three that I have owned, my current Palm Treo 755p is the best. I have found that Palm OS is definitely more stable than Palm WM (at least when comparing Treo's with Sprint and Verizon).

 

Good point Steve.

Although I have a WM 6.0 Palm, as you can see from my custom title and the dozen or more times I have said "Luv my Treo", I do really love it. I have had my Treo longer than any primary GSM or CDMA device which also speaks highly for it.

In my opinion any problems that I have had with it stem from add-on application. As you know there are many WM & Palm application out there and not all of them are stable or work right.

Like you, I am a Palm OS person myself, having started with the original Palm Pilot, succeded by the Palm IIIxe and the Palm Vx, before getting sidetracked by the WM IPAQ series. I was looking forward to getting back to Palm OS. Although that did not happen there are many "Palm things" in my Treo that other WM devices do not have. Here is a post on it that maybe of interest:

http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/m...hones/63878-treo-750-review-3.html#post492938


I for one, am really looking forward to the Treo 850. .