Smartphone Sales Skyrocket

2010 is turning out to be another great year for smartphones. Overall shipments have grown nearly 57% in the first quarter. Nokia had 21.5 million units shipped, RIM – the maker of Blackberry wih 10.6 million, and Apple’s iPhone with 8.8 million shipments.

"2010 looks to be another year of large-scale consumer adoption of [smartphones]" IDC analyst Ramon Llamas predicted, based on the trend in smartphone shipments. And updates expected this year for BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile are likely to spark even greater demand, he said.

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