"Apple Inc's iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States in July, its first full month on sale, accounting for 1.8 percent of all U.S. mobile handset sales, research group iSuppli said on Tuesday".

"iSuppli reiterated its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones this year, rising to more than 30 million in 2011".

"The two models of the iPhone [4GB and 8GB] on the market sold more than Research in Motion's Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio and any individual smartphone model from Motorola, Nokia or Samsung,".

"Most buyers of iPhones in the United States in July were male, under 35 and had a college degree, iSuppli said," Reuters reports. "A quarter of those who bought an iPhone switched to operator AT&T, which has an exclusive service agreement for the iPhone in the United States."

Reuters reports, "'While iSuppli has not collected historical information on this topic, it's likely that the speed of the iPhone's rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market" Read