According to the latest IDC report, Research In Motion has stayed strong over the last quarter of 2010 coming in at the number 3 spot of the smartphone market worldwide. Beat out by Nokia and Apple (number 1 and 2 respectively), RIM's numbers held strong thanks to a huge boost from consumers outside of North America. While interest is still strong in North America, rising competition from other smartphone makers will keep the battle for the top closer than ever. RIM shipped over 14 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010 (up 4 million from 2009) and had a 36.4% growth from the previous year. Keep reading for the full press release.

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IDC has announced their Q! Mobile Phone Tracker report results, and Research In Motion is listed in the top 5 of all mobile handset makers in the world (not just smartphones). This is the first time that RIM has broken into the worldwide top 5, as their total shipments surpassed Motorola by nearly 2 million units. The Curve 8520 and Bold 9700 are the devices noted for bringing up RIM, and it is also noted that they are the only smartphone-only company in the top 5. During our WES 2010 podcast we discussed the goods and bads to come from the conference as well as RIM in general. Reading the comments it looks not everyone is happy with RIM at the moment,  but we do know that good things are coming down the road. There are some new devices and obviously BlackBerry 6, as well as MVS 5 and some other goodies in the near future. RIM is still going strong, so hopefully things will shine in the coming months. Hit the jump to check out the full IDC report.

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There's now the original BlackBerry Curve 83xx series, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and the more newly-released BlackBerry Curve 8520/30 on the market... that's a lot of Curves available for purchase on a lot of carriers in the USA. And according to the IDC Mobile Devices and Technology Trends division that tracks these things the BlackBerry Curve was yet again the best-selling smartphone in the USA for the calendar Q4 part of 2009. The top 10 smartphones sold in America were as follows:

1. RIM - BlackBerry Curve
2. Apple - iPhone 3G S
3. Motorola - DROID
4. Apple - iPhone 3G
5. RIM - BlackBerry Pearl
6. RIM - BlackBerry Bold
7. RIM - BlackBerry Storm
8. Palm - Pre
9. RIM - BlackBerry Tour
10. T-Mobile - myTouch 3G 

Pretty solid results for RIM considering they cover 50% of the top ten. They had this to say on it:

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