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Mobile phone sales grew 17% in first quarter 2010

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units, an increase of 48.7% from the first quarter of 2009. With Android phones seeing a 707% growth…

Smartphone sales on the rise

iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple  rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…