BlackBerry loyalty tops all other smartphone brands in U.K.

By on Oct 4, 2011 at 4:40 PM
mobile October 4, 2011

Research In Motion’s line of BlackBerry smartphones retained British customers better than any other manufacturer’s devices during the three-month period ending in July. Among BlackBerry users in the United Kingdom who purchased new smartphones during that period of time, an impressive 69.9% chose to purchase a new BlackBerry smartphone rather than stray to a new vendor. The impressive stat comes from comScore’s recent MobiLens report, and it bests Apple in the No. 2 spot with a 65.2% retention rate and distant No. 3 HTC at 48.1%. Nokia (33.5%) and Samsung (29.4%) rounded out the top-5, and Sony Ericsson trailed with 22.5% in the No. 6 spot. A graph illustrating manufacturer retention rates in the U.K. over the past three months follows below.

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  • Anonymous

    Blackberry, what is it? 

    Come on BGR, how deep do you dig for bullish news re;RIMM. Seriously!! Hope the stock price goes down to 10 bucks and somebody buys them out to show the dinosaurs in the board room the door. They are so far behind, they can’t even play catch up. So sad!!!

    • Applesucksfatties

      sure…turd

      • Anonymous

        your reply genuinely made me feel bad… Did I hurt your feelings? I think I pissed you off before on one of these RIMM articles.. But I think your reply sounded like it was from a grown up before. Maybe you just didn’t have the fight left in you tonight kid – it’s all good! It can’t be easy hitting these comment boxes night after night trying to defend your castle thats falling apart. 

        BTW, for the record, I am NOT an iphone guy. I am a happy Android camper with 6 used blackberry’s in his drawer… 

      • Applesucksfatties

        No.. I felt that your dumb comment didn’t warrant an intelligent response back.   Why do you care if RIM stays in existence if you are currently using an Android phone?  That is like me saying that I want Apple to get bought out/go out of business because I use BlackBerrys.

  • Johnnyjj

    iphone4s was a HUGE flop. The propagandist will try to spin it in itoys favour but Apple a useless toy for styoud people. No woner the US is in a depression.

    • The Thrasher

      How can you call a device that was on back order for 6 months a flop?

      Didnt see your Motorola flip phone on back order last week did we?

      Some people are so dumb.

  • Georgegeeboy

    The isucker4 came out and wow what a flop. Apple really is a toy for kids.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t speak for the UK but we were in Indonesia last June; nothing but BB’s, everyone has one.  The only iphones I saw were in Japan while taking on passengers.  It has to do with the air cost and availability of internet (not too reliable there sadly).  Plus BBM is wildly popular.  I’m thinking the same is true in the UK?

  • Anonymous

    How can this be? Blackberrys suck donkey balls. I was so fed up of mine just plain not working that I paid my way out of my old contract just to get away from it. The thing spent half its life rebooting (at 7 minutes per boot), wouldn’t automatically set the time when I changed timezones, and when I manually set the time, it would crash. The camera was useless, the BB app store was junk and took forever to do anything. The screen resolution was dire and the numbers on the keyboard were almost invisible in anything other than perfect sunlight. Even the backlighting didn’t help.
    The thing was overpriced, useless junk. I find it really hard to believe anyone would still be voluntarily using a BB when there are so many better options around from Apple, HTC, Samsung and the like.

    • Steve Jenkins

      graze on sheep, graze on…

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