The handset might’ve been surpassed in functionality and looks by its Curve 8900 successor, but nothing’s got an edge on the BlackBerry Curve 83XX series in smartphone sales. According to NPD, the handset overtook the erstwhile champ iPhone 3G in the category for the first quarter of 2009, while BlackBerry’s own Storm and Pearl handsets took the third and fourth slots, with the T-Mobile G1 rounding out the ranks in fifth place. Overall the smartphone market has grown from 17 percent of handset sales in Q1 2008 to 23 percent in Q1 2009. Compared to the previous quarter, RIM’s gained a whopping 15 percent share of the US market — owning nearly half of the entire scene — while Apple and Palm both dropped 10 percent as they prep for their heroic mid-year launches.
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