iPhone 3G overtakes the RAZR as best-selling domestic handset

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/iphone_razr.jpg" alt="" /br //divspan style="float: right; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 4px;"script digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_3G_overtakes_the_RAZR_as_bestselling_domest ic_handset'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"/script/spanAccording to a report from NPD, sales of cellphones have shifted in a manner which should shock and stun even a casual observer. Apparently for the first time in years, Motorola's ubiquitous RAZR has been overtaken in consumer sales... by the iPhone 3G. This is a watershed moment for handset sales in the US, marking not only a shift away from the dominant market leader, but a turn towards more complex, full-featured devices. The news comes hot on the heels of NPD's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/08/latest-npd-data-shows-razr-v3-still-top-selling-handset-in-ameri/"previous findings/a, which still placed the RAZR in the top spot -- though with ever-decreasing numbers. In that same report, the iPhone found itself in second place, but it appears that flagging interest in the inescapable dumbphone coupled with the recent iPhone PR blitz have put Apple's moneymaker into the top position. The news is also buoyed by a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/07/analyst-confirms-apple-slid-past-rim-to-become-number-two-smartp/"recent reports/a that Apple has overtaken RIM as the number two smartphone vendor, and a J.D. Power study which found affection for the device waxing in the extreme. Overall, however, handset sales fell 15 percent year-over-year, and LG managed to snag the top brand position, with two models in the top five. Still, if there already wasn't a clear indication of the market moving towards both smartphones and touchscreen devices, this should give everyone a clearer picture of both the public's wants, and the power of Cupertino's ad-men. Full PR after the break.pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/iphone-3g-overtakes-the-razr-as-best-selling-domestic-handset/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emiPhone 3G overtakes the RAZR as best-selling domestic handset/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/iphone-3g-overtakes-the-razr-as-best-selling-domestic-handset/"iPhone 3G overtakes the RAZR as best-selling domestic handset/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/iphone-3g-overtakes-the-razr-as-best-selling-domestic-handset/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1367296/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/iphone-3g-overtakes-the-razr-as-best-selling-domestic-handset/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wc35qrDDtv23tXrYLoUQ19hPFYE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wc35qrDDtv23tXrYLoUQ19hPFYE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=wXfd0GPM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=wXfd0GPM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=2XjUV2KV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=2XjUV2KV" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/6g9TlymWczI" height="1" width="1"/