While RIM’s next-generation handsets such as the Bold, Storm and Curve 8900 are already flooding the marketplace — and a new wave including the Tour and Curve 8520 are on the horizon — it looks like RIM’s bread and butter is still the trusty old Curve 83xx series. According to recent analysis by The NPD Group, the BlackBerry Curve was America’s best selling smartphone in Q1 of 2009. It steals the title from the iPhone of course, as sales slow from its incredible pace last year. T...

Motorola announced its Q1 2009 financial results today and reported total sales of $5.4 billion with a net loss of $231 million. Though wider than the $194 million loss posted in the same quarter last year, things were better than analysts expected this quarter. Motorola’s mobile devices division posted device sales of $1.8 billion and shipped 14.7 million handsets, grabbing an estimated 6 percent share of the global handset market. Handset sales have dropped 45 percent from Q1 2008 and operating loss h...

AT&T released its financials for the first quarter this morning and despite just missing Wall Street’s $31.08 billion revenue projection, the company kicked off 2009 with a very solid quarter. Company-wide revenue came in at $30.57 billion and stand outs were certainly wireless and U-Verse performance. AT&T Mobility added 1.2 million net wireless subscribers in Q1 2009, 875,000 of which were postpaid customers — up 24.1 percent YoY. AT&T also activated 1.6 million iPhones in the quarte...

Apple will disclose its earnings for Q1 FY2009 tomorrow and as is always the case, analysts are in full swing with revised predictions. If Apple’s announcement can live up to the bulk of these new estimates however, shareholders are in for some good news come Wednesday. According to a report issued today by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple’s rebound performance in December looks to have saved the quarter – possibly propelling earnings beyond Wall Street projections. From the report:...