[Mark Rejhon]

Handango, an online reseller of mobile and PDA applications and a back-end service for online portals, offering PDA and phone downloads, reported the sales number for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform. Handango software sales for BlackBerry are up 1,201% over Q1 2005 and 64% over Q4 2004. Sales per unique BlackBerry customer are 13% higher than sales per Palm OS customer. Visitors to BlackBerry download portals powered by Handango are up 29% over Q4 2004. The number of third-party BlackBerry applications has grown an average of 41% QTQ since Q1 2004.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=1025


Other references:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4389
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...3435387&EDATE=

[Talldog]

I hope this means that the quality of 3rd party BlackBerry software will start to improve as more developers are drawn to the platform. I've been more than a little disappointed, not just with the relative lack of apps, but also with the poor quality of a lot of the stuff that is available.

[Eric5273]

Originally Posted by Mark Rejhon

Sales per unique BlackBerry customer are 13% higher than sales per Palm OS customer.

That's because they charge more for BlackBerry applications than they do for Palm applications...

[chadnexcom]

BIG NEWS. April the 26th Nexcom Wireless will launch the first ever US Blackberry Store. If you ever get to Charlotte NC swing by downtown at 4th and Tryon for a visit with 2 more first. The First ever 6' Blackberry modeled after a 7520 and the original Blackberry Man. I will post pictures later in the week. Needless to say Nexcom is pro blackberrry