I’ve got a number of stray BlackBerry items in my browser this morning. Each could be a full post, I suppose, but we can just as easily sum them up right here. We’ve got some content headed your way around noonish, so this way we won’t be burying old posts or clogging your RSS reader.
First up is the Pearl 8220. BlackBerry Cool has the scoop: it will be announced today at CTIA. As of this writing (though the writing is coming about an hour before posting), we haven’t seen the official announcement. We’ll throw up a link once it’s official.
Want to win a Lincoln MKS? Want to win a BlackBerry Bold? You can enter to win at winwithblackberry.com. The car features Microsoft’s Sync technology, which, if you listen to AM radio, you’ve surely heard of. Check out the site for contest details.
It’s tough to dethrone the king. Nokia, king of smartphones, continues to be the world’s leader, capturing 48 percent of the global market. RIM, however, finished second, and a wide second at that. They have 15.7 percent of the global market. Their next closest competitor, HTC, has 4.1 percent. RIM also saw sales jump 126 percent from the second quarter last year to the second quarter this year. Apple hit just 2.8 percent of the global market, down from 5.3 percent in the first quarter. Of course, the iPhone 3G was released in the third quarter, so we’ll see where this goes.
Finally, Boy Genius Report passes along some information on the reported spat between AT&T and RIM. The short, short version is that AT&T begged RIM to make the Bold, since the carrier wouldn’t be accepting any more non-3G phones. So RIM did, and now they feel they’re getting the shaft from AT&T. The whole thing is a good read, though some of it sounds like speculation.
