AppleInsider has posted a photo of some of the cardboard displays that have been popping up in Walmarts across the country all week. Sources from inside Walmart have revealed that the company will begin selling the iPhone 3G in some stores as early as tomorrow. Walmart will become the second retail company outside of Apple and AT&T who sell the iPhone 3G.
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In a press release today, Imagination Technologies Group plc revealed Apple's relationship with the company that is responsible for the PowerVR 3D chipset in the iPhone and iPod Touch.
"Apple Inc. is subscribing for 8,200,000 new shares of Imagination Technologies Group plc. Following the share placement, Apple will have an ownership interest of 3.6%. Apple is a licensee of Imagination’s technology."
Apple recently acquired P.A. Semi and became a licensee for ARM. This latest news from Imagination Technologies comes as speculation increases that the Cupertino based company may be looking to build it's own custom mobile devices in the future.
Data from ChangeWave Research
AppleInsider reports that an upcoming report from ChangeWave Research will show the iPhone to have recently gained 5 points in corporate market share, making it the second most popular business phone with a 14 percent share.
The gains came largely at the expense of Palm, who dropped 4 points while falling into third place overall with an 11 percent share. However, Apple was also able to grab a share point away from larger rival RIM, whose commanding lead now equates to a 76 percent share of the market.
Word of Apple's breakthrough arrives amid troubling data from corporate IT purchasing surveys which shows "a collapse in US business spending of historic proportions." Looking ahead to the first quarter of 2009, spending projections are the worst ever seen by ChangWave in its studies that date back to 2001, with an unprecedented 45 percent of respondents saying their company's IT budget will decrease or completely collapse.
The iPhone 3G is taking no prisoners this quarter! Today, the market research firm NPD reported that the iPhone 3G has surpassed Motorola's Razr as the most sold consumer handset among adults in the U.S.
"The displacement of the RAZR by the iPhone 3G represents a watershed shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality," said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD. "Four of the five best-selling handsets in the third quarter were optimized for messaging and other advanced Internet features."
Last moth, Apple revealed that they had outsold RIM to become the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
The top handset models in rank order, based on unit sales in Q3, were as follows:
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