RIM dethrones Apple as US BlackBerry sales in Q1 soar

yes, i’m familiar with computer languages( actually taking college level courses in them). i’m in full understanding about what you are saying. in a court of law, if you said “well, Palm and SDK dev teams say that the OS is…” then that is hearsay. Hearsay literally means information gathered by the first person from a second person concerning some event, condition, or thing of which the first person had no direct experience. Unless you are not filling us in here at BGR, we will assume you have no “direct” experience with the Palm Pre. not trying to bust your chops man…
another question for you(and answer the other question I had for you earlier: do you think Sprint will be able to handle the influx of data from Pre users- early reports suggest only 4500 handsets will be released): what OS will have the best entertainment quality(games, video, ect)?

I don’t know if they will be able to handle the influx of data from Pre users. I would assume though they would be though, because they have a well established 3G network. It would work much better on Sprint than AT&T.

As far as entertainment, there is no question iPhone is king of the hill. One only has to look at video of it in action to know it has performance similar to a playstation 1 console. Here are some videos of common games in action so you can judge for yourself:

Top Gun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkfV7hdIFI

Need for Speed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_p1c99sFJw&feature=related

Terminator Salvation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDDPAmZd5k

Brother In Arms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYfieW9liU

Not to mention it is capable of playing crisp HD video and has awesome video out. Movie rentals via iTunes can be put on the unit and look like DVD movies when plugged into your TV. And it is an iPod to boot … so its music capabilities go without saying.

As an entertainment device there is a reason why big game developers like EA are developing games for it like it was a console. iPhone has the power to play them.

^you are up on your stuff man. Apple has been rumored to be looking into buying EA. good info Christopher

one must consider that the bold is sold on every US carrier. the iPhone is exclusive to only at&t customers. Im entirely positive the iphone more than doubles 8300 series sales in Q1 for at&t. its actually incredible that one device from a specific carrier can even compete with a phone launched on so many carriers.

@Charles,
Someone on here using logic? Get outa here!!

LOL you are absolutely correct. What AT&T and Apple have done is far more impressive than what RIM has done. RIM has sales power in the sheer number of distribution channels. iPhone has an EXTREMELY limited distribution channel yet has done better than RIM prior to this announcement? And most likely only because of the buy one get one free deal? If you think about it like that .. comparative to what Apple has done, RIM is not doing so hot.

“RIM is not doing so hot.” Is that why there market share is up to 50% while apple and palms market shares dropped 10%? did you even read the freakin article?

@indymeh,
You obviously did not read my message. Of course RIM is doing really well in the market. I was comparing overall distribution of devices. RIM sells devices globally through all carriers. Apple sells mainly through one carrier in the US (the others just came on board). Prior to this year, Apple was outselling RIM in the US DESPITE being only one carrier.

You have a kid selling lemonade from a stand, and chain of grocery stores selling glasses of lemonade. Both sell the same number of glasses at the end of the day, which one did better? If the kid on the corner (company with limited distribution) was able to sell the same amount or more than the grocery stores (with a wide distribution chain), the grocery store chain was not doing very well. Even if the chain sold a little more glasses than that kid, that kid is still doing better.

shut up dusty. You sound stupid. Did you notice that there were three blackberry’s in the top five and the phone beating out the gay iphone is a three year old phone that has more capabilities than an iphone?!!??!?

apple fans shouldn’t talk.

@Steve,
You have to remember though, that Curve only beat out iPhone this quarter. And in that same quarter they had a buy one blackberry get another one free promotion. Curve is cheapest of the qwerty models. It only makes sense that people will buy the cheap phone and get ANOTHER curve for free to give to friends or family. So that is 2 curves sold to tons of people going after an awesome deal. If it wasn’t for this promotion, I seriously doubt we would be reading this article from this blog.