| Handset Sales Up 15% in Q2 |
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| Written by Mike Buetow | |||
| Friday, 01 August 2008 04:55 | |||
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STOCKHOLM -- Second quarter cellphone shipments rose 15% year-over-year to 297 million, a new report claims. Research firm Strategy Analytics forecast third-quarter sales of 321 million units as demand in emerging markets overcome seasonality in Asia and a slowdown in Western Europe and North America. Nokia had record global market share of 41%, on 122 million phones sold. Samsung Electronics sold 46 million units (15%) share, up 22% annually. Motorola sold 28.1 million units, down 21%. LG Electronics was fourth at 28 million units. Sony Ericsson's shipments fell 500,000 to 24.4 million units. Apple, fresh off the newly released 3G iPhone, shipped 700,000 units, down from 1.7 million sequentially.
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