LG Electronics has moved up to third place in worldwide phone shipments according to Digitimes.
Nokia still has the lead, followed by Samsung. Motorola moved down to fourth place with Sony Ericsson holding at fifth place.
Motorola has been having a hard time lately and laying off employee. LG on the other hand keeps coming out with more and more phones including a watch phone.
The LG Incite was introduced by AT&T recently to good reviews.
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Top-five handset vendors: Projected sales in 2008 (million units) |
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Vendor |
Sales volume |
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Nokia |
470 |
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Samsung Electronics |
200 |
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LGE |
100 |
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Motorola |
99.9 |
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Sony Ericsson |
96.6 |
Source: JoongAng Daily, compiled by Digitimes, January 2009