Cell phone shipments up 24% in Q4
Jan 28 2005 - 01:18 PM ET | In The News
Research firm IDC
reported yesterday that fourth quarter mobile phone sales were up 24% over the same quarter last year. A total of 194.3 million units were sold in the quarter and 664.5 million were sold in all of 2004.
The latest market share figures (Q4):
# Nokia - 34%
# Motorola - 16.4%
# Samsung 10.9%
# LG 7.2%
# Siemens 6.9%
# Other - 24.6%
In related news, 2005 is still being looked at as a growth year, but not to the extent 2004 was. A Strategy Analytics researcher is
estimating 8% growth in total unit sales (735 million units).
