Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone, and Palm Inc. both lost share in the second three months of the year. RIM the maker of the wildly popular BlackBerry wireless device, held 53.6 percent of the U.S. market for smartphones in the second quarter, up from 44.5 percent in the first quarter.Research in Motion Ltd. captured more than 50 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the second quarter, up sharply from first-quarter levels.
RIM’s strong market position was driven in large part by the recent release of two new BlackBerry devices — the Curve and the Pearl — for the Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless networks. Sprint and Verizon are the two leading operators of U.S. wireless networks that rely on CDMA technology.

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