Research In Motion Ltd.’s line of BlackBerry products continue to be Canadians’ top choice for smartphones despite losing market share to devices powered by competitors Apple Inc. and Google Inc., Ipsos Reid says in a new poll released this week.

In an online poll that drew responses from 46,000 Canadians during the month of August, Ipsos measured Canadians’ use of smartphones, tablets and e-readers to determine manufacturers' market share in each area and compared the results to those produced by a similar poll in January.

RIM was found to have shed 3 per cent of its leading market share over the eight month period, falling from a 41 per cent share to 38 per cent in August.

Those three points were absorbed by Apple’s iPhone, which climbed from 23 per cent in January to 25 per cent in August, and devices using Google’s Android mobile operating system, which climbed from 26 per cent to 27 per cent.

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there's a PR problem for RIM and they are in dire need to execute BBX OS (formerly QNX) quickly and polished to market.

the perception is that BB OS is dated and fractioned. the developers are not going to invest in BB OS 7 with new apps and loosing Google this week only compounds things

BB Playbook OS 2.0 is also delayed to make matters worse.

with users on 3 year contracts, the window to execute has closed or is closing fast on the last remaining users of BB products before renewals occur. I'm very positive there is bleeding to iOS and Android. I was one of them.

BTW online poll = unscientific.