Samsung Pips Motorola in Cellphone Ranking
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics overtook Motorola as the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker in the third quarter as the market continued to boom, a survey showed on Wednesday.
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Motorola Inc. , the No. 2  cellphone maker, on Wednesday posted second-quarter earnings  and revenue that beat Wall Street expectations due to strong  demand for its phones, including the Razr.
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Motorola Inc  expects revenue  and bottom-line improvements for its mobile devices business in  the fourth quarter compared with the third quarter, a top  executive for the company said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Motorola Inc. launched an entry-level cell phone on Tuesday, hoping to make up ground on rival Nokia Corp. by selling a large number of the simple handsets instead of relying on high-priced smartphones. Motorola launched the Motofone F3 in India, planning to roll it out soon to worldwide markets. The company will focus its sales efforts on developing countries in an effort to enlist the world's next billion mobile phone users, said Ron Garriques, president of Motorola's mobile devices division. The value-priced handset is designed to attract first-time users by substituting graphical icons and voice commands for the standard text-based interface. The phone saves weight and cost by using a plastic screen instead of glass, and extends battery life by using a monochrome "electronic ink" display. Motorola launched a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) version called the Motofone F3 Tuesday, and said it would launch a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) version called Motofone F3c by the end of 2006. The company predicted the phone will cost less than US$50, although specific prices are set by carriers. Motorola plans to use the product to win business in a different market segment than its high-end Q smartphone and ultra-slim Razr and Krzr cell phones. Sales of those phones pushed Motorola to sell 53.7 million handsets in the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 39 percent over that period last year and a larger gain than the market average. As a whole,Â worldwide mobile phone sales grew 21.5 percent in the third quarter, to 251 million units, according to market research firm Gartner Inc. Despite its strong performance, Motorola was not able to catch up to Nokia, which retained its position as the world's largest mobile phone vendor with 35.1 percent of the market. Motorola trailed with 20.6 percent market share, ahead of Samsung with 12.2 percent, Gartner said. Still, by launching its Motofone before the end of 2006, Motorola surprised some analysts who had predicted a seasonal slump for the company. "The Krzr is struggling to enjoy the same reception that greeted the Razr, and the Motofone might not be available until 2007. Christmas might not be so jolly for Motorola in some markets," Gartner said in its report. By targeting developing markets, Motorola has made a smart move to fight that challenge, said the report by Carolina Milanesi, Gartner's principal analyst for mobile terminals research. "Although sales of replacement handsets during the third quarter in more mature markets were not as buoyant as we have been accustomed to, they were offset by continuing momentum in sales to first-time buyers in emerging markets." With Motofone, Motorola has made a strong bet that she is right. The company relied heavily on its mobile devices division for $7.03 billion of its total $10.6 billion revenue for the third quarter. Â
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Motorola Inc. may have gotten a Christmas present from rival cell phone maker Samsung -- the Asian company was slow to beef up its product portfolio in time for the holiday season, giving Motorola's newest feature-rich phones an edge, analysts said.
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Motorola Inc. , the world's No. 2 maker of cell phones, on Tuesday said its quarterly profit rose sharply, helped by improving sales of a host of new handset models.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  cell phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service  Soundbuzz Pte Ltd. as it looks to stem recent market share  losses.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service Soundbuzz  as it looks to stem recent market share losses.
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Samsung Electronics posted a 46 percent gain in earnings, despite a dip in its cell phone and telecom-equipment business. Separately, Sony Ericsson posted a 29 percent year-over-year increase in sales during the third quarter.
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LONDON, December 2  - Samsung Electronics (SSUN.FSE) has projected a significant increase in its mobile phone sale volumes and margins for 1Q05, after having emerged as the worldâs second largest seller of mobile handsets, ahead of
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday  it is considering a low-cost mobile phone worth $40-50 that  comes with color features to fight bigger rival Nokia
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Samsung Electronics, Asiaâs largest technology firm with a market cap of $67 billion, outstripped Motorola ousting the American company from the No.
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By Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 9--Motorola is upbeat about the local mobile handset market this  year, forecasting sales growth of 20 percent in line with its global forecast.
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Samsung Electronics will present the latest model in its popular&#160;Ultra edition range of cell phones&#160;at the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona next week.The phone, dubbed &quot;Soul,&quot; is a slider-type handset that with an eye-catching touch panel under the display. The panel displays navigation icons that change according to the current application being run on the handset. For example, in camera mode icons such as zoom and brightness appear while music player functions appear in music mode.The quad-band GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) handset supports data downloads of up to 7.2Mbps&#160;over HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) networks and also has Bluetooth 2.0 wireless networking.Other features include a 5-megapixel camera with face detection and image stabilizer, FM radio with RDS (Radio Data System) and a music system based on technology from Bang &amp; Olufsen.The phone will be available worldwide and hit Europe in April.Samsung&#39;s Ultra line has proved a hit with style-conscious consumers. All phones in the range emphasize thinness and the new Soul handset is no different at 12.9 millimeters thick. But it&#39;s nowhere near as slim as the Ultra 5.9 handset that Samsung unveiled this time last year in Barcelona. The candy bar phone, as the name suggests, is just 5.9 millimeters thick.
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By Keiko Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--Motorola Inc.
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CHEJU, South Korea  - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS sees global mobile phone sales growing faster than   expected this year, while its own handset sales will just meet   the target, its president for handset business said on   Thursday.
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DRAMurai jostly for second place as Samsung grows market share