iPhone crushes the competition. All of them.
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Everyone knows that the iPhone has been selling at a record pace, but when you see numbers like these, it really puts things in perspective. Love it or hate it, Apple has a winner on their hands. The company’s first entry into the mobile phone market managed to snag 27% of all smartphone sales for the 3rd quarter of 2007. It outsold all Windows Mobile devices, and heartily crushed Symbian sales. The only manufacturer with more phones sold was RIM, which owes most of its success to the enterprise market. Corporate sales are nothing to scoff at, but it’s pretty safe to say that the iPhone has all but cornered the consumer smartphone arena.
and they are also growing the smartphone market. How many iphone buyers have never had email or browsing on any phone before? Those are the same people who are going to get hooked on buying these devices from now on, whether they be RIM devices or Apple. so settle down.
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I think the iPhone is great and I have no problems with Apple as a company. They definitely should get kudos for their innovation and style. However, I do wonder if they have staying power for the long-haul. I also suggest, excuse the pun, comparing apples to apples. The iPhone is a unique product, but is not a smartphone. I wouldn’t depend on it for my business needs. Let the pea-brained flame me as an Apple hater–whatevs–but I’m more interested in seeing how real smartphone companies integrate iPhone functionality into their products.
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It looks like apple just slightly outsold wm devices this quarter. I really don’t care. The iPhone is not for me. I have had my HTC TyTn II for two months and I am very pleased with it.
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when in the hell did the iphone become a smartphone???
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the REAL smartphone and business phone users are not that interested in iPhone
the meaning of smartphone is it has a development platform
PalmOS, Symbian, WM, Andriod are smartphone platforms because there’s a developing enviornment, and good amount of 3rd software (freeware and shareware) available
OSX mobile is NOT qualified as smartphone platform because it’s not open
I’d stick with business type phones because I exactly know what I need
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Have any of the posters on this site checked out crackberry.com lately? You would be amazed at how many iPhone users have switched to BlackBerrys because after using iPhones for a few weeks, they became dissatified and disappointed with them, and have either gone back to their tried and true BlackBerrys, or have become new BB users.
One of the reasons for their dissatisfaction is the lack of a ‘real’ keyboard, and true PUSH e-mail.
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If you want to see the worldwide smartphone sales figures, head on over to my website and have a look at this artcle:
http://devberry.com/2007/12/13/symbian-market-roundup/
Symbian pretty much crushes everyone else by a very very large margin. The US market is only very small in terms of worldwide smartphone sales and the market behavior is also significantly different from anywhere else.
Pretty much every sentence in this article should have ended with “in North America”
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These figures are only US/North American… because the iPhone is a joke on a European 3.5G network. It does NOTHING that high end phones did 3 years ago in Europe… and doesn’t rape your wireless carrier in the process.
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I have been saying this for some time now, but it’s quite obvious that BGR is on the iPhone bandwagon.
It’s very sad, especially when they post headlines like: “iPhone crushes the competition. All of them”, only to then back it with…”well actually only in 3Q U.S. sales…and actually..RIM sold more”. Pathetic.
BGR what about some EU sales? The iPhone has been out for a couple of months in Germany and UK. Why don’t you post links to all the articles saying tha the iPhone BRICKED big time in the UK and Germany?
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i know tha htg advantagex7501 and the nokia n95 blow the iphone out of the watter freature set wise they don’t even have to try
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Evry 1 is sayn ths nd it is tru iphne isn’t a smrt phne!! Bt it is sort of a stop clsr 2 a smrt phne thn a nrml phne. I dnt hav a blackbrry or pda or whtevr bt I do a a sidekick lx, gr8 phne, bt isn’t as mch of a smrt phne as a social phne, tht is kndr lke th iphne I guess mre social thn smrt. Ne way I wldnt class iphone as a smrt phne
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Hmm looks like Joshua needs glasses cause the above article indicates RIM being on top, as well, the process does NOT account for devices that are returned, I speak too many people who state things like “ya, I went through that iPhone thing, didn’t like it,so I’m back to my blackberry.”
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Blaze read it again he says that RIM finished first but give apple credit for this being their first attempt into the market.
Still funny how people are so defensive about something as stupid as a cell phone. Something that people rotate out every 18 months on average.
Nokia wins this Internationally, we know that. But they have no major impact in the US.
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Daniel, are you related to Galvatron?
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This is the first full quarter for iPhone sales, so its percentage is going to be high based on interest. Let’s see the numbers a year from now and see if the percentage is still up there. They certainly have the consumer market, but are a long way from the corporate market.
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iphone is not a smartphone and it already can handle alot of stuff better than smartphones, sure it still lacks alot of features but when you really think about it it only been out for 5 months compare to the rest that been out for more than 10 years. i think the only one safe outhere right now is Rim the rest are all Dome when the second Gen iphone is release next year
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pffft. wait till linux gets proper development.
and let’s not forget google’s engine is soon to come.
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Really, since when is the iPhone a smartphone?
I thought that was left open to the phones that actually did something.
But hey, they let Bush have a 2nd term so this isn’t really unexpected.
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another troll with nothing to say. so sad.
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No seriously I don’t see how the iPhone is a smartphone, I’m just not seeing it. I’ll settle for better than any cell phone, shit I’ll even tell anybody it’s better than any cell phone, but it’s not a smartphone.
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I am a die hard BB user as well…but I crumbled and got an iphone to play with. I put it on a Go Phone account so I won’t have it for very long.
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The apple Iphone IS a smartphone. Trust me on this. It is classifed as so with apple
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The funny part is how can you possibly consider and iPhone a smartphone. At this point it has no support for third party apps, it can’t even display Office Documents *.doc *.docx which usually come as a necessity to the average businessman. Lets face it but smart phones are mad e for convenience and versatility, mp3 play back,locked software os, and and EDGE network based phone doesn’t really shine to me as the best phone out right now.I think the only reason why it’s making so much sales because all the kids follow the iPod trend (just like many adults). There are many mp3 players better then the iPod, such as a Cowon D2 or Archos 602 wifi, just like there are better phones then an iPhone like the Samsung F700 or Nokia N95 8gb.
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Rofl, just because Apple classifies their own product as a “smarthphone” it doesn’t make it one fore several reasons.
A. Its a biased call
B. The phone lacks versatility and 3d party software (check out Symbian S60 of WM6 os, iPhone can’t compare)
C. Its and mp3 player with a SIM reader.
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Interesting topic. I work in mobile in Europe & also have AT&T Wireless as a cutomer. All the carriers that have launched iPhone have been pushed into it by their senior management & marketing guys (who holds the purse strings?).
From a product point of view, everyone is thoroughly disspointed as Apple will not allow third party software anyhwere near the handset, even at the carriers request … have just been down this painful route with Orang & AT&T.
Buy Blackberry
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