BlackBerry left behind iPhone in the UK

         

According to latest statistics from GfK, the best-selling smartphones in the UK in the past year – a Blackberry, but not iPhone. As the data from retailers and mobile operators, in 2010 the share of Research In Motion smartphone market in the UK amounted to 28.2 percent. Moreover, Canadians are still chalked up 36 per cent of the total number of smartphones sold during the Christmas and New Year season, and lured to their side more than 500 thousand users.

As it turned out, almost every second smartphone sold without a contract of service during this period, bears the logo Blackberry, and every fourth smartphone sold with a contract was made RIM. Special demand was just such a model as a Blackberry Curve 8520 and a new version of Blackberry Torch.

It is worth noting that RIM has also made significant strides in the field of software for Blackberry. First, the Canadians said that worldwide there are 33 million users of Blackberry Messenger (+500% compared to last year). Secondly, according to RIM, it is the leader in digital download on Twitter and is number 1 among users of Facebook. True, there are some things that Canadians tend not to mention. First, the Blackberry App World there are only 17.000 applications, although RIM reported that their number has grown by 60 percent since the II quarter. Secondly, the Canadians gave the statistics are not in categories. Now the last, as we found out GfK, many in the UK prefer to buy a smartphone is a contract of service, rather than without.

As we have seen, competition in the global smartphone market becomes tougher and there anybody in advance to debit accounts can not.