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Smartphone Shipments Up and Apple overtakes Blackberry

A report from Canalys on the global smartphone market indicates that sales are up and that Apple have catapulted into second place after the release on the iphone. Here’s a summary of the report findings:

  • worldwide smartphone shipments rose by 28% in the third quarter 2008. The figures reached a new high of 39.9 million
  • Nokia is still the market leader and has held that position for several years. This quarter Apple and RIm made inroads into narrowing the gap.
  • Smartphones now represent 13% of the overall mobile phone market. This is up from 11% last quarter.
  • Apple overtook RIM to take second place after the release of the iphone 3G
  • The top 5 smartphone vendors this quarter were Nokia, Apple, RIM, Motorola and HTC
  • In an interview with 13,000 European mobile phone users, touch screens emerged as the most popular device design
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