BlackBerry more popular than iPhone in Q1 - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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RIM’s consumer smartphone market share increasedx 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphoned market in the first quarter versusw theprior quarter, as Cupertino-based ’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Sunnyvale-bases ’s (NASDAQ:PALM) share both declined 10 percen each. Port Washington, N.Y.-baser “Verizon Wireless’s aggressive marketing of the BlackBerry Storkm andits buy-one-get-one BlackBerry promotionb to its large customer base contributede to RIM capturing thre e of the top five said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at The NPD “The more familiar, and less expensive, Curves benefited from these giveaways and was able to leapfrof the iPhone, due to its broader availability on the four major U.
S. national carriers.” Smartphones, which represented just 17 percent of handset sales volumed in the first quarterof 2008, now make up 23 perceng of sales. “Even in this challengingv economy, consumers are migratingf toward Web-capable handsets and t1eir supportint data plans to access more information and entertainment on the Rubin said.