BlackBerry: we are still the market leader in the Netherlands

RIM is still the market leader in the Netherlands. In may the company sold more smartphones than Samsung, Nokia, HTC, and Apple. The BlackBerry-maker is called, however, no concrete figures on the amount of handsets sold in the Netherlands.

RIM has in the Netherlands, only a few models on the market, such as the Bold 9780, Torch 9800 and Curve 9300. The company sold more smartphones than other brands, claims the company on the basis of figures of marktvorser Gfk Retail. Previously, we showed that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is the most sold phone of 2010. In February 2011, the two year old Curve 8520 the verkooplijst.

The netherlands is a really smartphoneland; smartphonemakers RIM, Apple and HTC are all in the top five most selling telefoonmakers. Nokia is in the sale of mobile phones and smartphones still the market leader, followed by Samsung.

BlackBerry in the Netherlands it was not popular by the business market, but by consumers. Among others, young people are flocking to a BlackBerry, because of the possibility of sending messages via the application Messenger. This ‘ping’ works only between blackberrys. The service is similar to WhatsApp.

RIM is under heavy pressure from shareholders and there are rumors about a possible acquisition of the company. Among others, Microsoft and Google are in the air mentioned as possible buyers of the company, which in the past strongly in value is decreased. On the North American market fell, the market share of RIM in the past few years of about 50 percent to about 12 percent.

The company in the coming months to seven models with the new OS BlackBerry 7 release. Below, there are probably two versions of the Bold 9900, Touch 9860, and new versions of the Torch, and Curve.