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."
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