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Apple’s iPhone was the leading smartphone during the month of July, and sales equaled the leading “feature phone,” the LG Chocolate, according to a sales survey released Tuesday.

Market researcher iSuppli classifies the iPhone as a crossover phone, with attributes that put it in competition both with smart phones and with feature phones. While the iPhone has some features associated with smart phones, users cannot load third-party software onto the product, which is a key requirement to qualify for smart-phone status. iSuppli defines feature phones as handsets that have rich functionality.

iSuppli also published an aggressive sales prediction for the iPhone: 4.5 million units for the year. The firm also predicted that the iPhone, or some successor, would sell 30 million units in 2011, based on “consumer demand, Apple’s brand image, industry anticipation and iSuppli’s estimates of volume shipments by manufacturers and the market segment,” the firm said.

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