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The smartphone market has been reduced to a two-horse race between Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry, according to consumer surveys published this week. And the iPhone is the one with the momentum, added Paul Carton , director of research at ChangeWave Research. In polls of 3,600 consumers the company did last month, 9 percent said that they owned an iPhone, up 50 percent since January.
RIM's BlackBerry still retains the lion's share of the smartphone market -- 42 percent last month by ChangeWave's survey, down a percentage point from January -- but the iPhone's hard charge has it poised to take the second spot from the fast-falling Palm. In February, Palm -- known for its Treo smartphone -- accounted for 16 percent of the smart phone market, down two points from January. More importantly, said Carton, Palm has dropped precipitously in the past year; in January 2007, it owned nearly a third of the market....more
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