BlackBerry Curve Outsells Apple's iPhone in 1st Quarter
Reuters reports that data from research group NPD found that the Blackberry Curve outsold the Apple iPhone in the 1st quarter of 2009.
Research in Motion Ltd's BlackBerry Curve moved past Apple Inc's iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S., research group NPD said on Monday.
RIM, which already dominates the corporate smartphone market in the United States, also had three of the top five best-selling consumer smartphones in the period, with the Storm at No. 3 and the Pearl at No. 4, NPD said.
T-Mobile's G1 ranked No. 5.
The iPhone was the top-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in both the third and fourth quarters of 2008. The Curve was second and the Palm Inc's Centro was third.
Here is a list of the top five bestselling smartphones in Q1 2009 from the NPD Group's press release. RIM had three of the five bestselling smartphones.
RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models)
Apple iPhone 3G (all models)
RIM BlackBerry Storm
RIM BlackBerry Pearl (all models, except flip)
T-Mobile G1
There's a lot of discussion in the tech blogs - see here - about RIM's phone knocking Apple off the #1 spot.
Reuters 
