iPhone: the second best selling US mobile handset

If you’re interested in market analysis you might want to know that iPhone is now the second best- selling Us mobile handset.
According to a study made by NPD the touch-screen handset now trails only Motorola’s RAZR V3 on the US sales charts, but it seems that 3G climbed to the No. 1 position for awhile, based on units sales from June through August, outselling the Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Pearl, and Palm Centro.

30 percent of costumers  switched from other mobile carriers to join AT&T, and nearly half of iPhone switchers (47 percent) made the jump to AT&T from rival Verizon Wireless, while 24 percent switched from T-Mobile. Another 19 percent are reported to have switched from Sprint.
“The launch of the lower-priced iPhone 3G was a boon to overall consumer smartphone sales. While the original iPhone also helped win customers for AT&T, the faster network speeds of the iPhone 3G has proven more appealing to customers that already had access to a 3G network.” ( Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for The NPD Group ).

The average price of a smartphone sold between June and August was reportedly $174, down 26 percent from the average $236 price tag during the same period last year.

via: Appleinsider

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