The global crisis market somehow still haunted the whole business sectors. Today, anywhere people still feels some bad condition that was caused by the global crisis effects. Somehow, the worldwide mobile phone market remained weak in the second quarter despite some encouraging signs in smart phone shipments. Somehow, the mobile phone shipments fell 10.8 percent year on year in the second quarter to 269 million units.
Some researcher of the IDC said that nothing the figure was an improvement over the first quarter. The mobile handset market has been tough on companies but good for consumers. The Apple price cut on iPhone 3G reflects a trend that would continue in the upcoming quarters. Somehow, Nokia remains the top of the mobile phone vendor in the world with the shipments of 103.2 million handsets. Samsung electronics takes the second place.
Motorola shipments fell 47 percent year on year to 14.8 million units. In the fifth place the Sony Ericsson was the only company among the top five that fail to increase the handset shipments in the second quarter over the first quarter shipped 13.8 million mobile phones in the second quarter, down 43.4 percent year on year and lower than the 14.5 million handsets it shipped on the first quarter. Well, this is the good time for consumers while the vendors are competing to survive.
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