Global Handset Sales Reached Record in 2nd Quarter - Survey
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Global handset sales rose to record  levels in the second quarter, putting the industry on track to  ship 650 million cell phones in 2004 as market leader Nokia  halted its decline, a survey said on Thursday.
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Worldwide mobile phone sales surpassed 167 million units in the third quarter of 2004, a 26 percent increase from the third quarter of 2003, according to a report released by market rtesearch firm Gartner.
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Semiconductor sales worldwide surged to a monthly record of $20.5 billion in August, fueled by higher demand for memory chips used in PCs and mobile gadgets such as cell phones and digital cameras, an industry group reported Monday.
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Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, expects its handset sales to rise 16 per cent next year to more than 100m units.
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Global mobile phone sales grew by 35% in the second quarter of 2004 compared with the same period last year, according to market monitors Gartner.
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The mobile phone giant says its next results will now be better than expected, thanks to a boost in handset sales.
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Motorola Inc., the No. 2 mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday it expects sales of phones based on the WCDMA third-generation technology to more than quadruple next year, helping it claw back market share.
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Sony Ericsson, the world's fourth biggest mobile phone maker, posted higher second-quarter profit on Wednesday as sales rose on increased demand for its phones.
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Cellphone subscribers around the globe totalled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year, about 25 percent of the world&#39;s population, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said yesterday.
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Global sales of wireless Bluetooth  headsets for mobile phones rose 153 percent to 33 million units  in 2005, representing a wholesale value of &#36;1 billion, and are  expected to grow 70 percent in 2006, according to a survey  released on Thursday.
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Bell tolls for handset makers Sales of mobile handsets will decline to single digit growth, but not before annual sales break the billion barrier.â¦
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Emerging markets spark growth The total number of mobile connections in the world reached 2.5bn on Thursday, having passed the two billion mark just 12 months ago.â¦
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The research firm&#39;s third-quarter handset sales figures are out, indicating the South Korean company took more of the market than rival Motorola for the first time as total sales set a new record.
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Mobile phones in the UK celebrate their 10th anniversary - with almost 90% of Britons now owning a handset.
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InfoWorld - India&#8217;s mobile handset production is growing fast, fueled by rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers in the country.
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Robust demand from emerging markets in  Asia and Africa lifted third-quarter sales of all major handset  vendors from the previous quarter, with companies expecting  another sales boost from holiday shopping ahead.
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Nokia, the world&#39;s largest maker of mobile phones, continued to regain lost market share in the third quarter with its global share of handset sales again rising above 30 per cent