Ranking the top five mobile phone manufacturers
More bad news for Motorola as most of the other major mobile phone manufacturers have announced their latest sales figures for the second quarter of 2008. LG, it seems, have had an especially good time eating into Motorola's US dominance, and having shifted 27.7 million handsets in the second three months of 2008, they're now officially the third largest mobile phone manufacturer by sales.
Complete rankings, sales and units shifted of the top five mobile phone manufacturers after the jump.
The top five mobile phone manufacturers, Q2 2008
The current rankings of the top five mobile phone manufacturers are:
(Note: manufacturers with a * after their figures are the Q1 2008 results)
1). Nokia (122 million units, with net sales of $21 billion)
2). Samsung (46.3 million units, with net sales of $6.531) *
3). LG (27.7 million units, with net sales of $3.788 billion)
4). Motorola (27.4 million units, with net sales of $3.3 billion) *
5). Sony Ericsson (24.4 million, with net sales of $4.457 billion)
As you can see, it's a tight battle between the last three. LG and Motorola in particular are neck and neck, but with Motorola's current woes, it should be more afraid of Sony Ericsson overtaking it than of trying to overtake LG.
Indeed, Sony Ericsson may be fifth in terms of units sold, but its net sales were substantially higher than both LG and Motorola, reflecting the fact that its phones are more focused on the high end market (and thus high end prices) that the other companies.
LG will have to go some way to overhaul Samsung, though, both in terms of units shipped and net sales. As for Nokia, well they're so far out in front, it's difficult to see anyone catching them in the next decade.
What's that? The iPhone you say? Apple shifted 1,703,000 of them, with net sales of $378 million. That's 1/70th the number of phones that Nokia shifted. The iPhone may be revolutionary, but it's not exactly hurting the other manufacturers just yet!
