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Report places LG as the number 3 handset manufacturer

Report places LG as the number 3 handset manufacturer

Posted: 20 Jan 2009, 13:29, by Alan F.

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Report places LG as the number 3 handset manufacturer

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If figures quoted in the South Korean based newspaper JoongAng Daily are correct, LG Electronics made up quite a lot of ground in the handset market last year. The report shows that the Korean manufacturer shipped more than 100 million units in 2008 which allowed them to leap frog over Motorola and Sony Ericsson to move into third place out of a list of the top 5 cellular phone producers in the global market. The same figures show Finnish company Nokia as the leader with 470 million units shipped last year. In second place is Samsung with 200 million phones moved. After LG comes Motorola followed by Sony Ericsson. Those two shipped 99.9 million and 96.6 million units respectively. Depending on whom you talk to, LG is considered the first firm to produce a touchscreen model with the introduction of the LG Prada. Recently the company introduced their first smartphone for the U.S. market with the LG Incite and, as we have reported, rumors persist of a modular phone that will be sold by Verizon Wireless as the VX9600.

source: DigiTimes via PhoneScoop

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1. The Godfather (unregistered) posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:42 0 0

LG rules, I sell the dog snot out of them. the incite is terribble though , I am glad Verizon didnt jump on this, we have enough slow WinMo phones that dont respond correctly.

3. tflex posted on 21 Jan 2009, 00:18 0 0

of course the incite is terrible..its on att and u have verizon... im seriously waiting for u to bash just ONE verizon offered phone... u havent yet. and u need to stop whining about the iphone on all of ur other posts...its sickening already.

4. vzw fanman posted on 21 Jan 2009, 07:49 0 0

haha lol. i hate the blitz

5. brikz4real posted on 21 Jan 2009, 18:20 0 0

Ummmm, tflex. Did you read Godfather's post correctly? He said, "... we have enough slow WinMo phones that don't respond correctly.....". Maybe I'm blind but it looks like that's what he said; and as far as I'm concerned, that's a bash to VZW WinMo phones. And furthermore, why do you even bother posting about the iPhone? Nobody's talking about the iPhone.

7. tflex posted on 21 Jan 2009, 20:45 0 0

i can post about the iphone whenever i damn well want to.

2. dpchris posted on 20 Jan 2009, 17:16 0 0

LG makes good phones. Windows Mobile is the problem. WM 6.1 is outdated, pure and simple. I'm not really sure what Ballmer means by "minor update," but I hope they show off something good next month at Mobile World Congress, because with the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and WebOS I'll have a lot of choices when my contract expires in August.