It’s happened.  According to Dealerscope magazine, a Consumer Electronics trade publication, the iPhone is now the best-selling handset in the USA!  A quarterly survey by NPD Group reports Motorola’s popular RAZR is #2, followed by RIM’s Blackberry Curve and LG’s Rumor in spot 4 and LG’s enV2 at 5th place.

The iPhone being the number one handset is a spectacular achievement and really speaks to the market’s wants and needs. It’s only sold through 3 major outlets (2 until recently adding Best Buy), it’s expensive compared to most phones and it’s arguably one of the most feature-rich phones.  Oh and it’s tethered to iTunes, Apple’s ubiquitous music player/digital hub software, which is very unique.  Additionally, the iPhone comes from a company who has no experience making a mobile communication device, which in itself makes this top-spot an unbelievable achievement.

Another interesting point of the survey is that 4 of the top-5 phones are in the category of “smart” phone or “feature” phone, meaning they all have some sort of keyboard and more features than our TRS-80 desktop computers did.

We think this is great news, but now are sort of bummed that everyone now has an iPhone and think Apple needs to introduce a geek-exclusive model for higher street cred.  Ah well, what’s good for Apple is good for us.