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Verizon is closing in on selling 1 million units of Motorola’s droid handset, according to Mark Sue, from RBC Capital Markets. They’ve been fighting tooth and nail to pry some market share from the iPhone with acerbic TV spots, shirts, and Black Friday deals, and they seem to be paying dividends. It’s awfully ballsy to be taking on Apple in the advertising world, but more power to Moto and Verizon for doing it, especially if they’re getting results. The current droid tally sits around 700,000 and 800,000, but once you take into the upcoming holiday rush and international sales, it’s easy to see that 1 million mark shattering. Analysts are expecting 1.5 million by the end of Q4, and while that’s not exactly beating iPhone’s initial numbers, it’s still pretty healthy progress for the Android platform as a whole.
[via GigaOm]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
