Market share figures are a bit puzzling, though.
Smartphones will account for 31% of all new handsets sold in the US this year, according to Pyramid Research's latest report. The company predicts this will soar to around 60% of sales in 2014.
Pyramid has also issued its estimates of US smartphone market share for 2009, claiming that LG and Samsung will take 23% of new sales each.
That implies that Pyramid's definition of smartphones differs from some of its analyst rivals. For example, earlier this week, Gartner was talking about LG's "lack of a smartphone portfolio".
Pyramid reckons RIM will take a 16% share of US smartphone sales this year, with Motorola's 11% outgunning Apple's 7% - and a sizable 20% of new sales coming from 'others'.
In 2014, the analyst thinks RIM will be top dog in the US smartphone market, taking 22% of all sales, followed by Samsung (19%), LG (18%), Apple (15%), Motorola (7%) and those Others (19%).
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