Thanks to a slew of innovative devices, the higher end of the handset market has managed to weather the depressed economic climate. RIM's focus on messaging and data features, driven at first by professional users, secured the BlackBerry a very good spot at the start of the smartphone race. Price drops, together with free, open-source operating systems, will boost the mass-market adoption of cheaper smartphones, but Screen Digest expects the BlackBerry OS to drop to fourth place in smartphone OS market share in the next 36 months, behind Symbian, Android and the iPhone.

Global Smartphone Shipment Forecasts (m)

Blackberry Handset And Subscriber Growth (m)

Quarterly Worldwide Smartphone Shipments (m)

RIM Quarterly Basic Financials ($m)

RIM Quarterly Revenue Breakdown ($m)

RIM Revenue Geographic Split (%)

Overview of Blackberry Handset Lines

Revenue per Handset ($)

Non-exhaustive Table Of RIM's Recent Acquisitions

published: 03-Dec-09

pages: 14 - tables & charts: 9