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Gartner: Smartphone Market Grows 11.5% In 3Q08 From 3Q07
Edited Press Release STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Gartner Thursday said in the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since it began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of ...
Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate With 11.5 Per Cent ...
gartner.com — Apple Overtakes Microsoft As No. 3 Smartphone OS Vendor Egham, UK, December 4, 2008 — In the... third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner, Inc. began tracking the industry. Worldwide ... (more) Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its ...
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Smartphone numbers are in: iPhone sales exceed Windows Mobile sales for first time
Engadget — ... Gartner's latest and greatest analysis of the global smartphone industry is in, and there are quite a few interesting nuggets tucked within all those percentages. For starters, the sector still managed to grow 11.5% in Q3 2008 compared to a year prior, but that ...

News: Mix: iPhone 3G ads, Gartner, iFund, DownloadShopper
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — ... claims, and those of the purported class, are barred by the fact that the alleged deceptive statements were such that no reasonable person in Plaintiff’s position could have reasonably relied on or misunderstood Apple’s statements as claims of fact,” Apple said in its response. Gillis was one of many disgruntled iPhone customers to file suit against the company, and AT&T, in the aftermath of issues surrounding the iPhone 3G’s initial release. Market research company Gartner has released its third-quarter smartphone findings, showing Apple in the third position in global ...

Apple iPhone sales out beat Windows Mobile handset sales
Phones Review — ... BlackBerry smartphone sales jumped an incredible 81.7 percent in the third quarter of 08. Furthermore, apparently a rumour is saying Apple will be hacking up their Apple iPhone production in the fourth quarter by 40 percent as they have some 2 million units of inventory built up in the supply chain. The biggest news is that the Apple iPhone has in this quarter exceeded sale of Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets in North America and globally. Source – cnn ...

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