Handset Market Grows 15 Percent in Q1; NOK Market Share 41.1-Percent

July 31, 2008 at 7:59 am PT

The global mobile handset market grew 15 percent in the second quarter to 297 million units, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Nokia (NOK) continued to dominate the market, with a 41.1-percent share, up from 40.9 percent in the first quarter, shipping 122 million phones. Samsung followed with a 15.4-percent share, with Motorola (MOT) holding onto the third spot at 9.5 percent, followed by LG at 9.3 percent and Sony Ericsson at 8.2 percent. The research firm noted that Apple (AAPL) had just 0.2 percent of the global market in the quarter, as it prepared for the launch of the iPhone 3G.

Read the rest of this post

Tagged with: Barrons, Eric Savitz, frontpage, mobile handset, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Strategy Analytics, Tech Trader Daily

Must-Reads from other Websites

Why Apple Should Buy China’s Xiaomi

Panos Mourdoukoutas, Contributor, Forbes

What I Didn’t Say

Paul Graham, Founder, ViaWeb

We Need to Talk About TED

Benjamin Bratton, Journalist, The Guardian

I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass

Mat Honan, Senior Writer, Wired

All Together Now

Chris Ware, Writer, The New Yorker

The Sculpture on the Moon

Corey S. Powell and Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Contributors, Slate

About Voices

Along with original content and posts from across the Dow Jones network, this section of AllThingsD includes Must-Reads From Other Websites — pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Six posts from external sites are included here each weekday, but we only run the headlines. We link to the original sites for the rest. These posts are explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that the content comes from other websites, and for clarity’s sake, all outside posts run against a pink background.

We also solicit original full-length posts and accept some unsolicited submissions.