Tight in competition with Apple iphone but still blackberry has managed to sell 10.1 million BlackBerry models, which is probably enough to keep them in front of Apple and retain second place on the throne of smartphone manufacturers after Nokia. Their revenue in the quarter was 20.3 billion dollars, an increase of 11 percent over the previous quarter and 41 percent over the same quarter a year earlier. Profits in the quarter ended at 3.3 billion dollars, an increase of 59 percent over the same quarter a year earlier.

In total there are now approximately 36 million, making use of BlackBerry models, with their special mail service. The U.S. president Barack Obama would be one of those.