RIM Outselling Nokia in Europe
Moritz Dispatch
12/22/09 - 10:04 AM EST
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Nokia's stumbles on its home turf have opened
the gates for Research In Motion and Apple.
Dumb moves in smartphones haven't helped Nokia keep its top position,
but recent checks by MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen show RIM's
BlackBerry phones are now outselling comparable Nokia models in
Europe.
Nokia's weak product lineup and software problems with fading rival
Sony(SNE Quote)Ericsson (ERIC Quote) phones "are giving RIM a rare
opening in Europe," Kuittinen writes in a research note Tuesday.
Click here for more on the U.S. (okay Canada too) invasion of Europe's
smartphone market: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10651112/1/rim-outselling-nokia-in-europe.html
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