Nokia, Samsung top cellphone charts
Nokia is still the clear favourite when it comes to cellphones, with most other makers scrambling for their share of the remaining pie.
This is according to a report by analysts Gartner, which found that Nokia’s phones accounted for 39.1% of the world cellphone market based on sales in the first quarter of 2008. Samsung and Motorola accounted for 14.4% and 10.2% of the market respectively.
The report found that worldwide phone sales reached 294.3 million phones in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6% increase over the first quarter of 2007.
Of those, Nokia sold 115.2 million mobile phones in the quarter. Samsung racked up sales of 42.4 million phones.
The biggest loser in the cellphone wars at the moment is Motorola which dived from more than 18% of the sales in the first quarter of 2007 to just over 10% in the first three months of 2008.
LG overtook Sony Ericsson to become the number four vendor worldwide.
In the Eastern Europe, the Middle East and African region, more than 56.4 million phones were sold in the period, significant increase of over 25% on the first quarter of 2007.
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