Blackberry Q3 Sales Announced, RIM Reaches 36 Million Users Milestone!

Dec 25, 2009 by Shahbaaz

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dollar-sign RIM has sold about 75 million Blackberry phones till date and a part of the credit goes to its Q3 Sales where the count rose by 4.4 million handsets in the third quarter.

The disclosure came as a consequence of RIM Q3 Fiscal 2010 Conference and brought about a smile of pride for Blackberry users.

Most of the Blackberry sales were credited to the incessantly active BOGO campaigns and its Love What You do ads, which are responsible for this increased publicity and bursting sales shooting up this quarter’s revenue by up to 11 percent.

82 Percent of the RIM Q3 revenue came from Blackberry sales, 14 percent is credited to the Blackberry services while the rest 4 percent goes equally between softwares and other revenues, thus driving the net income for the quarter to $628.4 million.

“Our long-standing view is that Apple remains RIM’s only true competitor, but we believe there is plenty of room for both to succeed,” Wu said in a note to investors. “Combined, we estimate RIM and Apple have only 5%-6% share of the total global cell phone market.”

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Reason To Cheer : RIM Q3 Profits

Though all the Blackberry phones are good at their respective markets, Blackberry 8520 contributed a remarkable number to lead RIM’s Blackberry to the pedestal. While about 15 million devices were sold in the U.S. as of October 2009 against Apple’s 9 million mark.

There are about 36 million Blackberry phone users, and with the quarter having seen a 4.4 million subscriber accounts this quarter, RIM has enough reasons to celebrate besides predicting its share to expand from 3 percent this year to four percent in 2011 ror the aggregate 5-6 million users in the market.

Tags: Blackberry Sales, BoGo Campaigns, RIM Profits, RIM Q3 Revenue, RIM Q3 Sales