• GigaOm, Friday, December 17, 2010 2:45 PM

The good news for Research In Motion? It just reported strong smartphone sales, shipping 14.2 million BlackBerry devices in the quarter. The bad news? According to the sales figures, RIM continued to lose ground in the U.S. market as consumers and enterprise customers continued to adopt phones running Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms. "The overall sales numbers are certainly positive for RIM," reports GigaOm, noting that that company sold 40% more handsets year-over-year.

"But RIM's growth isn't keeping pace of some rivals, which are capitalizing on the smartphone craze at the expense of the Canadian company." Indeed Apple increased sales by 90.5% year-over-year, passing RIM on the global handset sales list. Last year, according to Horace Dediu's Asymco blog, the U.S. accounted for 57% of RIM's revenue, but in the just-reported quarter, that figure dropped to 34%.

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