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Gartner has released their latest quarterly report on worldwide mobile phone sales. iIn the first quarter of 2009 worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units, a 8.6 per cent decrease from the first quarter of 2008. Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 per cent increase from the same period last year.

"Much of the smartphone growth during the first quarter of 2009 was driven by touchscreen products, both in midtier and high-end devices," said Roberta Cozza, principal analyst at Gartner, based in Egham, UK. "'Touch for the sake of touch' was enough of a driver in the midtier space, but tighter integration with applications and services around music, mobile e-mail, and Internet browsing made the difference at the high end of the market."

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woah!

alandrew @ 5/22/2009 12:32:23 AM # Q
I am truly suprised at Nokia's smartphone market share, i thought Palm would've at least featured over
Fujitsu....amazing.
Well it only shows that it is going to be a long climb to the top !

Lets Go PALM !

Treo600>>Treo680>>Centro>>Pre

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