Smartphone News: RIM WINS 1 m in Europe, while Nokia N9 gets limited release

It is for RIM, swings and roundabouts: according to our analysis show that RIM BlackBerry users in the United States lost 1 m in the last three months, the company announced that it has won 1M-Anwender in Europe in the past three weeks.

Led to the following:

Patrick Spence, Managing Director, EMEA, research in motion, said: "Thank you, more than 1 million new customers, that municipality merged the BlackBerry over Europe, Middle East and Africa in the last three weeks alone." "We are thrilled by continued growth, we are experiencing in EMEA, the, making development partners, are grateful for the amazing efforts of our application our operator partners, our partners in the retail sector, and our distribution partners who have helped us this is done."
(Distribution partners airlines, especially =.)

"BlackBerry continues to be the number one Smartphone brand in some of our markets, including Netherlands, South Africa and the UK - where we are the number one Smartphone manufacturer of total sales, and the number of one prepay phone provider." "Our smartphones including the BlackBerry bold and BlackBerry Curve also top sales lists in countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and we recently announced that RIM foreign sales had grown 67% year over year for the first quarter."

This is true. We do not know anything like international gains, but was transferred; Profits increased 9.6% have been around the world in the last quarter.

Also, it is not clear how the prices on these phones go. The average selling price for RIM phones according to their results dipped below $300 in the last quarter; It is still pressed to get. But clearly it is pricing to extend user and succeed in any case, the. It is a special attraction in the Middle East, where BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) communicate persons of the opposite sex without it can face to face: BBM and blackberries are very popular in these countries therefore in addition to many others. This is part of why Apple introduces its own version in iOS5.

In the meantime some interesting news from Nokia. You will remember that it showed the N9, will be his only MeeGo phone.

So, where are you can get a N9? Horace Dediu of Asymco, who notes:

Countries where the Nokia N9 not started: UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Canada and the United States.

And:

The first Nokia raising [Windows phone] device will run all of the Nokia N9 start excluded in UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Which means first of all, that device is the United States, Norway and Belgium not always either from the outset.

The fact of the overlap (or non-overlapping) is an interesting question: the first Windows Mobile phone from Nokia is really use the N9 body? It's a nice looking phone - and with the slightly updated Nokia under Stephen Elop, perhaps a business spirit will prevail.

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