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I keep reading articles about how the iPhone will soon be the smartphone of choice for businesses. I have yet, though, to find a really compelling reason why. Yes, they might be getting Exchange support, but even then they have a lot of ground to make up to get to RIM. Remember, that’s just one phone, while RIM has a line of phones that suit various business and personal needs. In any case, a recent survey by ChangeWave Research has RIM far atop the corporate smartphone purchases.

RIM nabs 73 percent of the market, to Palm’s 18 percent. The Palm Treo is actually down from 28 percent a year ago, and 23 percent as recently as August. Not having released a new model in a while surely doesn’t help Palm, though the Centro is pretty neat.

The future doesn’t look that great for Palm, either. When asked what brand of smartphone they plan to purchase for their company, only eight percent of respondents said the Treo. This was actually behind Apple, who had a response rate of 11 percent. Motorola had seven percent, and Samsung had four. I’m not sure that RIM was at the full 70 percent, but it has to be somewhere up there.

So yeah, we’ve seen outages and we’ve seen patent suits. But none of it seems to be able to derail the BlackBerry.

[Palm Infocenter]

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