The smartphone market in North America has a number of major players with no single firm or OS system dominating heads over the competition. However, RIM (Blackberry) is gaining market share by attacking a wider consumer market from its traditional enterprise role. DiscussWireless has updated their forum to reflect some new changes in the industry.




One year ago, according to recent ABI Research market data, Palm Inc.’s 33% share of the market equaled RIM’s. But RIM has surged to 44% share in the second quarter of this year compared with the year-ago quarter, while Palm has slid to 24%.

Motorola ranks third in smartphone sales in North America on the strength of its Q device at Verizon and Sprint Nextel, but sank to 11% of the market from 15% in the year-ago quarter. That may be a sign that the company’s original Q model needs refreshing—the new Q Music 9m, aimed at a youthful demographic hungry for music and messaging, launched this week at Verizon.

Nokia Corp. is No. 4 in North America at 6.5% market share, down from 8% in the year-ago quarter. The decline was the least of the major vendors that trail RIM. The number of smaller players in the smartphone market has increased. That reflects the push that Samsung and their BlackJack handset, the success of a variety of devices from HTC and Sony Ericsson, which also is building alternative channels while working to meet the needs of top-tier carriers in the United States.

DiscussWireless has removed their Smartphone Forum and have pushed the forum posts into various PDA categories, namely the Pocket PC Forum and the PDA Software Forum. This will help users post news and reviews in the right area. Enjoy!

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