RIM maintains third place worldwide smart phone marketshare, survey says

A new survey by a market research company shows Research in Motion has managed to maintain a third place ranking for worldwide smartphone market share.

But Samsung and Apple are still leading the category by a wide margin.

RIM saw its Blackberry sales fall 35 per cent in the third quarter compared to last year, down to 7.7-million units.  

That though was enough to stay ahead of Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE, which is seeing strong sales of it’s lower priced smartphones.

And HTC, a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets, saw it’s sales plunge 42 per cent in the third quarter falling to fifth place.  

Samsung and Apple are the two dominant players. Samsung doubled its sales to 56-million units led by the Galaxy smartphone.  

Samsung now has 31 per cent market share.  

Apple iPhone sales rose 57 per cent to 27-million for 15 per cent of the market.   the data compiled by i-d-c showed nokia out of the top five for the first time ever.

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