Mobile Monday - Breaking News: 2006 will be the year of one billion shipped mobile phones
Mobile Monday - Breaking News: 2006 will be the year of one billion shipped mobile phones
Nokia and Motorola took 53% of the market
2006 will be the year of one billion shipped mobile phones
Timo Poropudas
20 Apr 2006 at 15:06
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Motorola Rokr Mobile phone shipments will reach one billion milepost this year, predicts Strategy Analytics. The research company upped it growth after impressive 229 million mobile phones were shipped worldwide in Q1 2006.
The annual growth rate for January-March was 31 percent. This was the first time sales have exceeded the 200 million barrier during quarter one.
Motorola was the star performer, reaching 20 percent global market share for the first time since 1998. Nokia also surged, as the top two megavendors tightened their grip on the competition. Sony Ericsson sold more than 2 million Walkman music phones and outgrew the overall market. Meanwhile, Samsung continued its recent slower growth trend.
Following a strong flow of upbeat forecasts from tier-1 mobile players, Strategy Analytics predicts 1.00 billion units for the full-year 2006, up 22 percent from 817 million sold in 2005.
Nokia and Motorola, who account for a record 53 percent combined, are starting to run away with the global handset market, at the expense of most other players below them.