While the world awaits for the big Apple event on Monday, research firm Gartner has just released a report showing statistics on smartphone sales for the first quarter of 2008. And guess what? The report says that Apple is now the no. 3 vendor of smarthphones worldwide and no. 2 in the U.S. Snagging 5.3 more »

Back to our regular stream of iPhone posts for a minute, but if you’ve been wondering how the iPhone sizes up to the competition, we’ve put together a comparison using Sizeasy. Enjoy.