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Market share figures are to some degree irrelevant and misleading. The smartphone market is massive and growing. The headlines from Gartner encourage speculators to short RIM stock. However, when you look at the underlying figures, RIM increased the number of handsets sold by 40%. A truly remarkable figure by any measure. Apple are doing well as well ? Good for them. As for Android, yes lots of handsets are being sold with the new OS, but the spoils are shared by a large number of manufacturers. RIM appears to be a hugely undervalued business with a true niche and little competition in the area of secure corporate email over a dedicated global server infrastructure. 

They must be joking. Has anyone ever tried taking an iphone on a business trip ? The iphone downloads emails in full. If someone sends you a 5MB document, the iphone downloads the full document. On vodafone, that would cost you £15 to receive the on email. Now if like me you receive 100 emails a day, the cost is astronomical. On the other hand, with a Blackberry, the data remains on the Blackberry server. So a 10 day trip with 100 emails a day costs me around £10. Even better, the Blackberry has some clever technology that converts PDFs and Microsoft Word documents to simple text. So the data hungry formatting gets left behind, keeping your data bill to a minimum.

On a recent trip, I took both an Iphone and a Blackberry. I switched off the data roaming on the Iphone and only used the Blackberry for email. I still came back to a £100 bill on the Iphone! Apparently, if you connect to Wifi on the Iphone and the signal gets interrupted, you default back to downloading via the Carrier network, despite having roaming switched off.