Mobile phone sales increased in 04Q1 from 03Q1 by 29%, moving up to 152.7 million. That more the 50 million phones purchased each month, world wide. And most new phones have some sort of application platform available. What is interesting to not is that this respresents 10% of the 1.5 billion subscriber market. Nokia sales dropped considerably due to a weak mid-range lineup, but the company still maintained the #1 position worldwide by a wide margin. It was followed by Motorola, Samsung, and Siemens, and Sony Ericsson just barely edged past LG Electronics for the #5 spot with 5.8% marketshare. Nokia dominated smartphone sales by an even wider margin, 41.7% compared to #2 RIM with 12.7%. Motorola, Fujitsu, and Sony Ericsson rounded out the top 5 far behind the market leader. |
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