OMG! iPhone sales sharper than RAZR at last

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 09:00

IT Industry - Market

Naturally, astute iPhone users noted that the iPhone surfs the “regular” web, not the mobile web, so AdMob’s stats were likely little more than a way to get some iPhone derived free publicity for AdMob’s products and services.

Chances are it worked a treat, and whether the stats were accurate for the iPhone or not, it was still a great look into mobile browsing and ad serving on rival phone platforms.

What’s not in dispute however is that the Motorola RAZR was the top selling phone in the US for quite some time, despite having debuted at an outright purchase of more than AUD $1300 at the time.

And even though it has finally been toppled by the iPhone, it still remains in the number 2 position.

The Motorola RAZR was revolutionarily thin when it launched, after all, and if it had offered a better operating system would have been even more successful.

Instead Motorola pumped out successive versions in black, red, gold, and then successors such as the Razr2, Krazr, Rizr, the candy-bar Slvr and now the RAZR V3, while dropping the price lower and lower.

The low, effective “give-away” price is what has kept the RAZR in its different forms in top spot for so long, but the iPhone’s popularity has been creeping up on the diminutive Moto so that finally, in the 3rd quarter of this year, Apple’s sales figures finally tipped the iPhone into top spot.

But will Apple’s new supremacy last? RIM’s BlackBerry Curve is in third position behind Motorola, and the upcoming BlackBerry Storm is RIM’s big iPhone challenger.

There are also phones such as Samsung’s Omnia and derivatives, Nokia’s 5800 XpressMedia “Tube” phone, LG’s touch screen phones, an upcoming N-Series “iPhone clone” from Nokia and more on the way, all with the iPhone primarily in sight first, and other competitors thereafter.

So... enjoy the NPD top spot while you can, Apple – and please make sure the iPhone OS 3.0 with cut, copy and paste, proper Bluetooth support and more is on the way!

Don’t forget, we’re all waiting to see what the physical iPhone 3.0 model due in 2009 will have, with great expectations on tons of cool new features... instead of reheating the current iPhone 3G into an iPhone 3.5G as you did with the 2G to 3G transition.

Thanks!