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12% of early iPhone 3G buyers report ditching their BlackBerry

Approximately 12% of consumers who visited a retail store this past weekend to make their iPhone 3G S purchase said they were replacing a BlackBerry handset, the latest sign that Apple continues to make headway against rival Research in Motion in the high-stakes smartphone market.
That data point is one of several interesting statistics to come [...]

RIM once again ships 7.8m BlackBerries as new iPhone looms

Research in Motion put pressure on Apple Thursday with word that about 7.8 million BlackBerries had shipped during its latest fiscal quarter, again setting a new record — and dismissing the likelihood of new and cheaper iPhones as immediate threats.
The tally for its first quarter of fiscal 2010 is a sharp 44 percent jump from [...]

Symbian: We have time to beat Apple’s iPhone

I had dinner Monday night in London with David Wood, futurist at Symbian, and came away feeling strangely calm. Perhaps it was the exceptional food at Veeraswamy, capped off by a bitter chocolate ice cream….
Or perhaps it was the fact that Wood has spent 21 years with Symbian (and Psion before it was acquired [...]

Why Apple keeps iPhone specifications quiet

In marked contrast to the PC market, where differention primarily centers around gigabytes, GHz, and Intel Inside branding, Apple is working to keep attention on the iPhone’s software, with a curious avoidance of any mention of the make or specification of its internals, apparently for competitive reasons.
The specifications of the iPhone and iPod touch, [...]

Smartphone king Symbian ready to strike back

Just about everyone knows the
iPhone –and perhaps also that it runs on Apple’s operating system–though the phone only has about 10 percent market share among smartphones. Far fewer know the name of the most widely used mobile operating system, which holds nearly 50 percent of the market: Symbian.
As recently as 2007, Symbian had 70 percent [...]