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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, HTC, Windows Mobile

If you’re jazzed about the Touch Diamond, but have a thing for albino devices, a Danish site may have unearthed just what you’re looking for. According to HTC-User, the company will be introducing a white version of their popular touchscreen device come October. We can’t say for sure if this intel is pure gold or a pile of festering garbage, but if the pics we see (just renders right at this time) and the retail order page the site is linking to are any indication, this magic will be a reality sooner or later. That’s a good thing, too — you don’t want Apple cornering the market on white and black touchscreen phones, right? Check out one more very big picture after the break.

Update: Engadget Spanish has confirmed that these are — in fact — the real deal, and will be headed to store shelves come October.

[Via Engadget Spanish, HTC-User; Thanks, Jesper]

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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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