Phone sales up, market share close

Dec 01 2004 - 02:33 PM ET | In The News

A report from research group Gartner shows global handset sales up 26% for Q3 2004. Total sales reached 167 million mobile phones. However, the big news is a change in market share: Samsung edged out Motorola. Despite hot phones like the RAZR V3, Motorola was edged out by Samsung with just .4% difference between the two companies. Sony Ericsson and LG are also very close. Here are the latest rankings:

Company	Sales (in thousands)	Market share	Difference Q3 2003
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%
LG	11,141.8	6.7%	1.4%
Sony Ericsson	10,683.2	6.4%	1.1%
Others	35,417.4	21.2%	1.0%

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