1 billion mobile phones shipped in 2006

  According to International Data Group (IDC), more than 1 billion mobiles were shipped in 2006. This is 22.5% increase in growth over 2005. 0.83 billion mobiles were shipped in 2005. This performance is mainly attributed to rapid growth in China and India. India and China were added 74 million and 67 million new mobile subscribers respectively. Total mobile users in China and India are at 469 million and 149 million respectively.        Top 5 Mobile phone vendors:         1. Nokia       2. Motorola       3. Samsung       4. Sony Ericsson       5. LG Electronics         … [Read more...]

Indian Mobile market – some facts

        Motorola rose to second spot with 105 market share while Nokia is far ahead of rivals with 77% market share.         Sont Ericsson and Samsung dropped to third and fourth places with 5% and4% market share respectively.           Motorola sales jumped from 70,000 a month to 1million a month.         Indians are expected to purchase 64 million handsets this year.         49% of Indian Mobile users use yahoo as their primary website, whereas 46% download games.         Only 9% Indian users have Camera Phone.           … [Read more...]