LG 3rd Place in Worldwide Phone Shipments, Says Digitimes

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.

Top-five handset vendors: Projected sales in 2008 (million units)
Vendor	Sales volume
Nokia	470
Samsung Electronics	200
LGE	100
Motorola	99.9
Sony Ericsson	96.6

Source: JoongAng Daily, compiled by Digitimes, January 2009