According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile handset shipments grew a healthy 15 percent year-over-year, to reach 297 million units in Q2 2008. Motorola surprised and held off LG to maintain the third spot in our global vendor rankings.
Bonny Joy, Analyst at Strategy Analytics said, “Global handset shipments rose 15 percent annually, to 297 million units during Q2 2008. Despite much economic gloom, handset sales remain robust in emerging markets and the worldwide growth rate is, in fact, higher than it was at any time during 2007.”
Findings from Strategy Analytics’ Q2 2008 Global Handset Market Share Update report include:
– Apple’s global handset shipments fell sharply, from 1.7 million units in Q1 2008 to 0.7 million in Q2 2008. Apple’s worldwide marketshare stood at a tiny 0.2% in Q2 2008. We forecast Apple to rebound to 1.1% share in Q3 2008 as shipments spike from the new, cheaper iPhone 2.0;
– Total annual growth for the worldwide mobile handset market reached 15% in the second quarter of 2008. Contrary to popular perception, and despite much economic gloom, the global handset market is growing faster than at any time during 2007.
Source: Strategy Analytics
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sir Gill Bates” for the heads up.]
“1% market share is 10 million phones… Exactly what we’re trying to do, 1% market share in 2008, 10 million units and we’ll go from there.” – Apple CEO Steve Jobs during Macworld Expo 2007 Keynote Address, January 9, 2007
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so much more to come
aapl
In other news, McDonald’s sold more hamburgers than Toyota sold cars.
It’s a handheld mobile computer disguised as a smart phone, not a cell phone.
It’s always a little sad to see these lists and Apple’s name isn’t one of them. Being lumped in with “Others” is rather degrading. But one of these days, by golly! We’ll show ’em!
That’s strange. I don’t see MicroSoft up there.
After all, Steve Ballmer has said that they sell millions of smart phones, hasn’t he?
@ the other Steve – you Sir, are correct!
What the hell has a list of cheap crappy cell phones got to do with the transcendent iPhone?
NOTHING, thats what.
When “Others” cumulatively come in at #2 on your list, you haven’t divided them up enough.
Do it over and show your work. See me after class.
I don’t find this degrading at all. It hasn’t even been 2 full years since iPhone came out. It’s also not a craptacular phone, it’s an investment. Give it some more time.
seriously? who cares about this.. lets see the smartphone market share numbers..
Yeah. Motorola. The powerhouse. Get that shit out of there
ChrissyOne,
“See me after class.”
I’ve been naughty too. Can I be punished?
R,
“I don’t find this degrading at all.”
Okay, from now on I will only refer to you as ‘Others’ instead of your given Christian name ‘R’.
You will soon learn to regret your new found anonymity.
A more interesting metric would be comparing the iPhone to other smart phones and not all phones. If that were done the Apple iPhone would be significantly higher on the list.