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Mobile Phone Buyers Flock to Smartphones
By: Jessica Davis
2009-05-28
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Smartphone unit sales--including Nokia units, Apple iPhone, Google/T-Mobile's G2, and RIM's BlackBerry, among others--are grabbing more of the overall mobile phone market share, according to a new report. App stores and services are driving the higher sales.
Looking for another recession-proof technology to sell or integrate into customer sites? Smartphone unit salesincluding units from Nokia, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android-based phone from T-Mobile and RIM's BlackBerry, among othersclimbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period a year ago, according to a new report from Gartner.
That compares with sales of standard mobile phones, which fell 8.6 percent year over year in Q1, the market research company reports. Gartner says the channel increased its efforts to reduce inventory during Q1 in an effort to minimize capital investment in response to low consumer confidence.
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