| As per the recent reports, Research in Motion's | | | | RIM has increased its market share in the |
| Blackberry Curve has out played Apple’s | | | | smartphone market to nearly 50 per cent over |
| iPhone to become the number one choice among | | | | the past quarter, while Apple and Palm have each |
| users in US smartphone sales for the first quarter | | | | lost 10 per cent. As per industry experts, |
| of 2009. | | | | what’s most encouraging is that even in this |
| RIM had three of the 5 top selling smartphones, | | | | challenging economy, consumers are migrating |
| with some real aggressive marketing and | | | | toward web-capable handsets and their supporting |
| promotion of BlackBerry Storm and Curve. The | | | | data plans to access more information and |
| broader availability of BlackBerry on the four | | | | entertainment on the go. |
| major US national carriers has also helped their | | | | The whole scenario is automatically increasing the |
| cause. | | | | possibilities of custom applications for BlackBerry. |
| RIM is also expected to release it’s Storm 2 | | | | With more and more serious users picking up |
| this summer. Though RIM has confirmed the | | | | BlackBerry, it can be foreseen that the |
| details yet but as per various sources, BlackBerry | | | | BlackBerry apps store is going to be a massive |
| Storm 2 should hit the market no later than this | | | | place for users as well as custom application |
| September. | | | | development companies and entrepreneurs. |