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pedalpete on Oct 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows Phone doubles share in Europe, trails iPho...

There may be something funky with Statcounter, when looking at North America, they show Blackberry as doubling it's growth since May, doesn't seem like the most reliable source. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-na-monthly-201209-20130...

Also, its Windows Phone, or WP, not Windows Mobile.

OrwellianChild on Oct 1, 2013 [–]

This is consistent with product launches... Blackberry released the Z10 smartphone in May 2013. The Statcounter data tracks usage, which would plausibly go up quite a bit with new users on a phone with more fully-featured internet access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Z10

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