RIM's latest Blackberry Storm smartphone has been selling briskly
Palm disclosed today to Wall Street analysts that it sold 599,000 devices last quarter, down 13 percent year over year; with smartphone-only revenues reaching $171 million, down 39 percent from the year-ago period.
During that period, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company reported a net loss of $80.2 million.
At the same time today, but across the north border, RIM said it shipped approximately 6.7 million smartphones, totaling $2.25 billion in sales.
At the end of the quarter, the total BlackBerry subscriber account base increased from the prior quarter by approximately 2.6 million (~14%) to approximately 21 million.
The Canadian maker has also pointed to strong December sales driven by new smartphones such as the Blackberry Bold and its iPhone-like Storm device.
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