Apple to be number one handset in US in 3-6 months?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 26, 2007 at 1:32pm
AT&T recently revealed that the four-month-old iPhone is its top-selling handset. And it looks to be only 3-6 months How long until it leapfrogs the competition—including Motorola’s RAZR—to become the No. 1 handset in the U.S., notes Forbes.
The research firm Strategy Analytics calculates that the communications device, which Apple says has sold 1.4 million units since its June 29 release, is the fourth-best-selling handset in America. Moving 1.6 million to 1.7 million more phones in the fourth quarter would likely put it at No. 1, Barry Gilbert, vice president of Strategy Analytics’ BuyerTRAX, a quarterly consumer tracking program, told Forbes.
“The iPhone has momentum that is basically unparalleled,” says Gilbert.
While the slim, stylish RAZR v3 has been the country’s most popular handset since 2005, sales—and market share—eroded in the last few quarters as consumers bought flashy new handsets like the iPhone, LG’s Chocolate and the Samsung 707. In August, Motorola introduced a faster multimedia version of the RAZR, the RAZR 2. Analysts say it hasn’t cracked the top 10 yet, Forbes reports.
Marc Orchant Says:
Dennis - your Forbes link is broken (empty actually).
Posted on October 28, 2007
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
tom b Says:
3-6 months? That’s believable with the holiday season coming. Again, the “doom and gloom” crowd will be eating their words.
Posted on October 27, 2007