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BlackBerry shipments grew five times faster than iPhone in Q3

Despite last week's blog and news assertions that iPhone market share had reached 30 percent or even 40 percent, today IDC put Apple's smartphone smack in its place: No. 3, with 17.1 percent worldwide smartphone market share during third quarter. Full Article at BetaNews

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  1. An undated handout photograph shows the new Nokia N900 mobile phone. Nokia started deliveries, on November 10, 2009, of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world's top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.
  2. OREM, UT -  NOVEMBER 5: A manager holds an Apple iPhone (L) and Motorola's new Droid smart phone (R) sold through Verizon at the Verizon store November 5, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Google powered Droid is being released by Verizon November 6, 2009.
  3. BERLIN - NOVEMBER 02:  A converted Dodge minivan is steered remotely with an iPhone by a student of the department for aritificial intelligence at the Freie Universitaet Berlin during a demonstration at Tempelhof Airport on November 2, 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
  4. SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 19:  Adam Jackson smiles as he holds up his new iPhone 3Gs at an Apple store June 19, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
  5. SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 08:  Apple Senior Vice President of iPhone Software Scott Forstall delivers a keynote address on the new iPhone 3.0 operating system at the Apple World Wide Developers conference June 8, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
  6. NEW YORK - APRIL 15:  A general view of the iPhone application for NHL tweetup website named Tweetie during the NHL Playoff Kickoff Party on April 15, 2009 at NHL Powered by Reebok Store in Manhattan. New York.
  7. Breanna Sooter and her father Eric test out the Cinemizer video eyewear which allow users to watch movies from their iPod and iPhone during the Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, CA, Wednesday, January 7, 2009.
  8. NEW YORK - JULY 11:  The new Apple iPhone 3G is on display at the Apple Store, Fifth Avenue, in midtown Manhattan July 11, 2008 in New York City. Crowds of gadget lovers worldwide are purchasing the device following aggressive promotions.
  9. TOKYO - JULY 11:  People wait in a queue  to buy the newly released Apple iPhone on the first day of its Japanese launch outside SoftBank Mobile's flagship store on July 11, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.

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