POPULARITY OF mobile phone is increasing day by day, as it has became one of the most popular devices for communication. Market of mobile has increased with 13.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2008, over the first quarter of 2007.According to Gartner, Nokia still maintained its position as a number one market vendor with selling of 1152 lacs mobile set in the first quarter of this year. Although the market share of Nokia has slightly comedown. But with the wider range, Nokia is capable of leading, in the market. Samsung is the the number two vendor of mobile phone market. Its performance was quite apprehensive. Samsung sold 424 lakhs mobiles in this period. Motorola, the third vendor of market, showed some poor results and sold only 299 lakhs units. There is a huge gap between the performance of Motorola and Samsung in the first quarter.
For the fourth position, there was competition between LG and Sony Ericsson. But in this first quarter, LG got very good start and occupied the fourth position in worldwide market.
LG sold 236 lakhs mobile sets, whereas Sony Ericsson sold only 221 lakhs sets.
"While sales in emerging markets continued to be driven by strong growth of net new subscribers, mature markets felt the pressure of an uncertain economic environment," said research director for mobile devices at Gartner, UK, Carolina Milanesi. "Sales of high-end devices in particular were lower as consumers turned to mid-tier devices when looking to upgrade their old phones. Phone manufacturers should strengthen their mid-tier offerings in order to cater to those users that might be reticent to invest too much money in replacing their old phones when the economic environment remains challenging."
source : http://www.merinews.com/
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