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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Palm, RIM, Samsung, Studies, Apple

Well in this place’s a Shift, according to an NPD Group study, RIM sits atop the sales charts in the smartphone world and HTC doesn’t even make the top five. During the period from January until July of 2008, 9 million sets were sold in the US for a cool $1.7 billion. Behind the mighty BlackBerry comes Apple’s –the iPhone launch is being touted as the magic that helped ease them into second place — followed by Palm, Samsung , and Motorola. The NPD Group goes on to mention that smartphone sales are up ten percent over the same period last year to 19 percent of all phones sold and that pricing is down seven percent to an average price of $185 per handset. Follow the read link for more tasty bits of number crunchery.

[Via Moconews]

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, GSM

The rumor mill promised us that the Motorola W388 would be nothing worth writing home about, and we’ve got to hand it to the mill — it was spot-on this time around. Mobil.cz appears to have scored the first shot we’ve seen of the new low-end candybar, and while the design’s positively retro, the microSD slot is still a notable inclusion for such a cheap (or cheap-looking, anyway) device. Music gets some special attention, thanks to a shiny d-pad with embossed music controls, a dedicated player button, and the inclusion (seemingly) of in-ear buds. A VGA camera rounds out the hearty feast of mediocrity. No Dat. or price are given, but you know what they say — if you have to ask, well, odds are you can probably still afford it.

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