Shipping 650 million handsets in 2004
December 3, 2004Gartner reports:
“Booming demand in the third quarter, a 26 percent increase from the third quarter of 2003 – a total 167 million phones ended up in the hands of consumers – meant the $100 billion-a-year handset industry was now surely on track to ship 650 million cell phones in 2004. Samsung overtook Motorola as the world’s second-biggest mobile phone maker in the third quarter as the market continued to boom, a survey showed on Wednesday.”
| Company | Sales (in thousands) |
Market share | Difference |
| Nokia |
51,694.9
|
30.9%
|
-3.3%
|
| Samsung |
22,981.2
|
13.8%
|
2.6%
|
| Motorola |
22,393.0
|
13.4%
|
-1.3%
|
| Siemens |
12,758.2
|
7.6%
|
-1.5%
|
|
11,141.8
|
6.7%
|
1.4%
|
|
| Sony Ericsson |
10,683.2
|
6.4%
|
1.1%
|
| Others |
35,417.4
|
21.2%
|
1.0%
|
