IDC is reporting that smartphone sales is 4Q09 are up almost 40% from the previous year, and for the full year, almost 175 million smartphones (about 15% of the entire mobile phone market) were sold worldwide.  The iPhone showed a healthy (!) 100% growth year to year and RIM brought in an additional 40%.

Top Five Converged Mobile Device Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, Q4 2009 (Units in Millions)

Vendor	4Q09 Unit Shipments	4Q09 Market Share	4Q08 Unit Shipments	4Q08 Market Share	4Q09/4Q08 Growth
1. Nokia	20.8	38.2%	15.1	38.5%	37.7%
2. Research In Motion	10.7	19.6%	7.6	19.4%	40.8%
3. Apple	8.7	16.0%	4.4	11.2%	97.7%
4. Motorola	2.5	4.6%	1.6	4.1%	56.3%
5. HTC	2.4	4.4%	2.2	5.6%	9.1%
Others	9.4	17.2%	8.3	21.2%	13.3%
Total	54.5	100.0%	39.2	100.0%	39.0

Top Five Converged Mobile Device Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, 2009 (Units in Millions)

Vendor	2009 Unit Shipments	2009 Market Share	2008 Unit Shipments	2008 Market Share	2009/2008 Change
1. Nokia	67.7	38.9%	60.5	40.0%	11.9%
2. Research In Motion	34.5	19.8%	23.6	15.6%	46.2%
3. Apple	25.1	14.4%	13.8	9.1%	81.9%
4. HTC	8.1	4.6%	7.5	5.0%	8.0%
5. Samsung	5.7	3.3%	5.4	3.6%	5.6%
Others	33.1	19.0%	40.6	26.8%	-18.5%
Total	174.2	100.0%	151.4	100.0%	15.1%

Via MacRumors.

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We’re past the 98% completion point for the BlackBerry version of our applications. This app features:

• an icon and launcher right on your tourists/customer’s BlackBerry screen
• a hybrid web/device model, to provide a “best of both worlds” model; in particular, to provide a full featured app for the BlackBerry user while minimizing the impact of the app on one’s limited BlackBerry resources
• full geo-location features (closest to me, order by distance)

A few features seen on the iPhone version are not here, but are likely to be added soon:

• show multiple locations on map
• favorites
• routes

Some things are never going to come unfortunately:

• augmented reality

We’re pretty happy with this app. It should run on any 4.2 or later BlackBerry, but will look great on 4.6 or later.  In case you didn’t know, our “base” offering covers all the apps we do – iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry and mobile web browsers, so it’s not a matter of picking one or the other.

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