Gazelle Gadget purchaser who buys equipment in exchange for money, announced today that it has seen a 80 percent increase in trade BlackBerry since last week, up from record levels earlier this month.
The metric is a prolonged disruption of Research In Motion-mail and messaging services to BlackBerry, which left users can not communicate with each other or send and receive e-mails worldwide. To placate the angry users, RIM provides users with $ 100 free "premium" of applications. The rise coincided with the launch of Apple iPhone 4S.
Gazelle "Chief Gadget Officer 'Anthony Scarsella told CNET that this is" easily the largest volume of trades BlackBerry seen period. "That includes a" spike "due to court this month." In the grand scheme of growth of BlackBerry in the last month, may be more or less completely attributed to the launch of the iPhone 4S, "Scarsella said.
Besides seeing a boost BlackBerry recent Scarsella says Android as part payment has been an increase of 72 percent over the same period of time. That number may be slightly blurred to attribute to any type of event though.
Gazelle says that most of Android as part of the payment have been on the Sprint network, which began to take the iPhone for the first time this month. Users can also plan the future of one of the many new Android devices announced in recent weeks. That includes two cores Motorola Razr Droid 4G LTE smartphone and Samsung Nexus Galaxy, which was released both within hours of each other and represent the latest and greatest in the Google Android platform.
In total, Gazelle has seen about 65,000 payments as part of Apple's iPhone, as it began to buy customers, and Scarsella said he expects the number to reach 75,000 by the end of this week. Earlier this month, the company reported becoming iPhone using cash, once every 15 seconds in an attempt to block the buyback price on the day they announced the iPhone 4S.
The metric is a prolonged disruption of Research In Motion-mail and messaging services to BlackBerry, which left users can not communicate with each other or send and receive e-mails worldwide. To placate the angry users, RIM provides users with $ 100 free "premium" of applications. The rise coincided with the launch of Apple iPhone 4S.
Gazelle "Chief Gadget Officer 'Anthony Scarsella told CNET that this is" easily the largest volume of trades BlackBerry seen period. "That includes a" spike "due to court this month." In the grand scheme of growth of BlackBerry in the last month, may be more or less completely attributed to the launch of the iPhone 4S, "Scarsella said.
Besides seeing a boost BlackBerry recent Scarsella says Android as part payment has been an increase of 72 percent over the same period of time. That number may be slightly blurred to attribute to any type of event though.
Gazelle says that most of Android as part of the payment have been on the Sprint network, which began to take the iPhone for the first time this month. Users can also plan the future of one of the many new Android devices announced in recent weeks. That includes two cores Motorola Razr Droid 4G LTE smartphone and Samsung Nexus Galaxy, which was released both within hours of each other and represent the latest and greatest in the Google Android platform.
In total, Gazelle has seen about 65,000 payments as part of Apple's iPhone, as it began to buy customers, and Scarsella said he expects the number to reach 75,000 by the end of this week. Earlier this month, the company reported becoming iPhone using cash, once every 15 seconds in an attempt to block the buyback price on the day they announced the iPhone 4S.
