Samsung sees higher global handset sales
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CHEJU, South Korea  - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.   005930.KS said on Thursday it sees global mobile phone sales   growing faster than expected this year while its own handset   sales would meet its target.
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(InfoWorld) - Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 21.5 percent year on year to 251 million units in the third quarter, with India and China driving growth, according to research from Gartner Inc. Gartner predicts that sales for the year will fall just shy of one billion phones. Sales should reach 986 million units by the end of the year, the research group said. Europe, one of the most mature mobile phone markets in the world, showed just 1.9 percent growth over the same quarter last year. Asia Pacific experienced the most dramatic gains, with sales of 80.8 million units during the third quarter, an increase of 54.7 percent over the same period last year. That significant growth happened despite a decline in sales of 4.7 percent in Japan compared to the third quarter in 2005. An increase in retail outlets and better distribution channels in emerging markets such as Indonesia, Philippines, and India significantly offset that loss though, driving growth in the region. Other regions of the world also reported solid growth. In Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sales grew 19 percent compared to last year, to 48 million phones. North American sales reached 40.8 million units, up 12 percent. Sales in Latin America grew 13.7 percent over the same time last year, to 29.8 million phones. Gartner reported that the smaller phone makers will increasingly struggle to compete against the giants. In the third quarter, Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung Electronics together accounted for 68 percent of phone sales. Among those three, competition is fierce. While Motorola increased its market share during the quarter, it lost its number one position in Latin America, to Nokia, and also lost its number two spot in Western Europe, to Samsung. Nokia has the largest market share worldwide, but failed to grow its market share in North America during the quarter. Nokia's worldwide market share was 35.1 percent, up from 32.5 percent in the same quarter last year. Motorola had 20.6 percent, compared to 18.7 percent during the third quarter in 2005. No. 3 vendor Samsung had 12.2 percent market share, just slightly down from 12.5 percent last year.
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Texas Instruments Inc , the world's top mobile phone chip maker, said on Thursday it expects global sales for analog chips to double over the next seven years, fuelled by growing demand for consumer electronics.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said its results for third quarter would be better than earlier forecast due to higher-than-expected handset sales.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced  semiconductor technology solutions, yesterday shared stunning prospects  for a new industry-fusing technology era that will offer tremendous  global opportunities for expanded use of three-dimensional (3D)  silicon-based technologies.
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The global market for mobile telephones grew sharply in fourth quarter 2004, with sales up by 25 percent to a record 200 million units from the same period of 2003, but overall sector growth should slow in 2005, the research group Strategy Analytics reported.
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Strong demand for low-cost phones in Africa, the Middle East and Asia lifted the companyâs share of the global market to almost 40 percent.
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Worldwide mobile phone sales surpassed 156.4m units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 per cent increase on the second quarter of 2003, according to market research group Gartner, Inc.
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BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to begin selling later this month a cellular telephone that includes a hard-disk drive. The handset was unveiled as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2004 event began here on Monday and is the first cell phone of its kind in the world, according to the company.
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Global sales of mobile telephones surged a record 35 percent to 156 million units in the second quarter from the same period in 2003, a study published by the US research group Gartner showed.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said on  Thursday it expected mobile phone sales volumes and profit  margins picking up in the first quarter of next year after  cleaning up inventories in the current quarter.
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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.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. expects strong demand and cost cuts to boost second-half profit in its chip business, it said Friday.
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Verizon Wireless said on Wednesday its stores have begun selling a phone from Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) that was designed to work on mobile networks around the world.
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Concern over falling profit margins at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. grew on Thursday as the company said it was spending more on handset marketing and a top broker issued a &quot;sell&quot; rating on its stock for the first time in years.
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Samsung Electronics plans to enter the lower-end market for mobile phone handsets to compete more effectively with Nokia, the market leader.
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U.S. telephone carrier customers of Samsung Electronics saw slowing sales of cell phones towards the end of the 2007 holiday shopping period, which was a strong sales period for Samsung, a top executive for the phone maker said on Sunday.