Q3 summary: Apple joins the Top 5, Sony Ericsson drops off

31 October, 2010
This week was chock full of financial reports and now it’s time for a summary. According to industry analysts IDC, mobile phone market grew 14.6% with 340.5 million units shipped. Smartphones are...

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  • 31 Oct 2010

Mobilemaster, 31 Oct 2010You are totally right. The Japanese giants are now at home,... morei been to japan b4 and the gap between their phones and iphone and android is not so much. JP phone operators has better internet services and their phones are built solid

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    • 31 Oct 2010

    Anonymous, 31 Oct 2010lol i still have razrv3 which is working perfectly, iphone ... moreI'll give you that one on the android front.

    having owned three motorolas like yours, they all died in no less than 4 weeks. Hats off to you mate. iPhones are, generally, well built Gotta give them credit but they are so limited. Personally, i see iphone buyers as the sheep that want a smartphone but dont want to have to think about it. Nothing wrong with that at all.

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      • Lax
      • 31 Oct 2010

      Anonymous, 31 Oct 2010panasonic, sharp, fujitsu, toshiba exclusively produce for ... moreYou are totally right. The Japanese giants are now at home, but they will ENTER in the global markets too. Then MANY companies will tremble! As many people knows, that Japan is the most advanced mobile phone maker in the world.

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        • Anonymous
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        • 31 Oct 2010

        Anonymous, 31 Oct 2010Whats all this talk of Sony Ericsson dying? People forge... moreremember samsung net income is 10billions this year and the whole company of sony only worth only 40billions. Nokia will be next sony

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          • Anonymous
          • TqC
          • 31 Oct 2010

          Anonymous, 31 Oct 2010Whats all this talk of Sony Ericsson dying? People forge... moresony has been struggling every division. laptop, tv, audio and phone all done poorly now.they lost 437 millions in total this year whereas samsung grew and apple grew fastest

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            • Anonymous
            • TqC
            • 31 Oct 2010

            [deleted post]lol i still have razrv3 which is working perfectly, iphone 2g and 3g too. I still has second gen ipod which works via power source. I had nokia 5800 b4 and it lags after 3 months. i sold and bought iphone 3g. my current ph is iph4. the title says how popular apple. They can choose title like"Q3 results out, nokia on top". But who cares nokia. No one eyes on n8 at my local store. they eye on iph4 and galaxy s and htc hd!!remember android is american company too :)

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              • Anonymous
              • nGq
              • 31 Oct 2010

              Whats all this talk of Sony Ericsson dying?

              People forget that it's part of a 40 billion dollar company.

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                • Desire
                • 3HV
                • 31 Oct 2010

                A very interesting article. The 'Other' is also quite large, almost same size of Nokia's. Has anyone got a link to find out what the 'Others' are? Want to see where HTC, and Motorola stand among others like SE.

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                  • 31 Oct 2010

                  Wake up white people, 31 Oct 2010Why we white europeans buying japanese, koreans, chinese mo... moreI must say that when a Nokia mobile phone is made in Europe (Romania or Hungary), it's a strong "pro" for many people I know. I would very much like to support developing countries but when times get tough and it comes to choosing whether the unemployed is your neighbour or somebody 4 thousand miles away...

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                    • Luy
                    • 31 Oct 2010

                    Samsung only growth 0.7 % of market share???, i thought this quarter could be the best for samsung, this way they never will be number 1 !!!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • iFs
                      • 31 Oct 2010

                      yep, Nokia will always be the best :)

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                        • KFP
                        • 31 Oct 2010

                        So nokia is the best, second is 'others' and third is Samsung. Easy.

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                          • 31 Oct 2010

                          Nokia no 1! always!

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                            • Anonymous
                            • sSV
                            • 31 Oct 2010

                            Wake up white people, 31 Oct 2010Why we white europeans buying japanese, koreans, chinese mo... morewhy need to support local brands ? just buy the best phone in ur opinion, their profit is not ur profit anyway.. why bother ?.. my local phone manufacture sux, and i won't even buy a thing from them..

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                              • 31 Oct 2010

                              these growth rates apple will never catch up nokia and samsung long years. Nokia equips symbian in cheap phones and takes the first place. Nowadays samsung is doing the same thing with bada os devices. They have to put a price level and at high end prices apple will kick them all in the a..

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                                • Anonymous
                                • sSV
                                • 31 Oct 2010

                                actually i can't see the light how come LG on the top 3... that is like the worst phone manufacture among other top phone... i can't even remember when was the last time i saw my friend using LG or even talk about it.. even 1 of my friend asked me, "is LG still producing phone out there?" he tought LG almost become siemen,,,,

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                                  • m5N
                                  • 31 Oct 2010

                                  Why we white europeans buying japanese, koreans, chinese mobile phones brands? We must support own product like japanese and koreans do!

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                                    • 31 Oct 2010

                                    nokia users have very sharp eyes for piracy. thye want everything free which thye can download at dangerous pirate websites. you can basically get everything for free for nokia on thye worldwide internet.
                                    that is thye case why peoples in asia, africa, europe and sociaIist canada love thye nokia phones so dirrty rad.
                                    God fearing americans prefer thye real iphones and motorolas Made in USA man where you can download thye worlds most awesum apps for a few bucks on thye credit card.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 31 Oct 2010

                                      I think I heard in this very website some comments from some Nokia fans tha Apple was gonna crash and burn in 2010.........

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                                        • prm
                                        • 31 Oct 2010

                                        SAMSUNG is the king of mobile market .
                                        GS and WAVE ROCKS .