Motorola clings to number one spot in US sales, RIM still rocking

Uh oh, Moto. Go 'head with your bad self. Just days after posting a meager profit (but a profit nonetheless) and maintaining your position in third in worldwide mobile market share, along comes a report claiming that you're still numero uno in the United States. While handset sales overall shot up 5.3% here in Q2, Motorola maintained a 26% share and managed to stare down at least a few naysayers. In related news, LG held tight to the silver with 22%, while RIM gained a double-digit market share increase thanks to sales of its oh-so-hot BlackBerry handset. Number nerds, feel free to tap the read link for even more fractions and decimals.

[Via RCRWireless]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2008 12:28PM]

They may be faltering and struggling - but let's face it, they have a large number of devices across the range of free to PDAs. The Q is still an excellent device, and they continue to upgrade the Razr.

Now - if only they could come up with something new... so they don't lose this #1 spot, because - they will.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2008 8:56PM]

So they don't list RIM's actual volume except to say that it is in "double digits"... so I assume that they are quoting *all* mobile phone users, and not just smartphone users, right? because I though RIM had something like 50% of the smartphone market in NA already...