LG sells 100 million handsets in 2008, ranks 3rd globally

21 Jan, 2009
The end of 2008 saw a major shift in the global GSM market. The Korean manufacturer LG managed to go ahead of both Sony Ericsson and Motorola and secured a third position globally in terms of sold...

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  • 21 Jan 2009

Sony is not happy with Ericsson that's why SE won't give Playstation brand to SE. 2008 is a disaster for SE with unstable A200 platform, it could be worse in 2009 recession.

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    • Fakuryu
    • QI%
    • 21 Jan 2009

    Wow! Great news for the Koreans specially from a conglomerate of a soap manufacturer and an electronics company!

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      • aborne lbm
      • Skr
      • 21 Jan 2009

      Striker, 21 Jan 2009lol @aborne lbm Turnover and profit are 2 very different... morei agree your right but still id be happy myself haha

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        • Striker
        • MSN
        • 21 Jan 2009

        aborne lbm, 21 Jan 2009how can they be worried at shipping just under 100 million ... morelol @aborne lbm

        Turnover and profit are 2 very different things dude.

        RIP SE (from an ex-diehard SE fan who now uses a Samsung Innov8).

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          • Anonymous
          • PAq
          • 21 Jan 2009

          makes me wanna learn korean ;P

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            • NOKIA
            • Sw@
            • 21 Jan 2009

            Two thumbs up for LG... excellent job...

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              • ND
              • wHU
              • 21 Jan 2009

              Unbiased, 21 Jan 2009SonyEricsson is going downn, down and down. They are droppi... moreYES! I totally agreed with ur views.

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                • ND
                • wHU
                • 21 Jan 2009

                Well done LG! I love LG mobile phones very much since last year. It has a big improve on the new models they launched in 2008. SE is going to the end of the road not far from now.

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                  • sparky
                  • S3L
                  • 21 Jan 2009

                  aborne lbm, 21 Jan 2009how can they be worried at shipping just under 100 million ... more100m to a business the size of SE is a tiny amount of money considering the oulay the have to make in terms of worldwide wages research and overheads ( + many more expenses (to many to list)) if they keep bringing in that amount of money they wont last long!!

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                    • David
                    • p8c
                    • 21 Jan 2009

                    None of these can touch Nokia, SE is not doing well and Motorola company still in deep financial crisis because most of their sold units are 50 dollar phones in third world countries, which means they have to sell like 10-15 units to make same profit as one N-series Nokia, and using up 10-15 the body material as well for that many phones. I don't know how LG got those numbers, i see like 1 out of 100 people with a LG phone, they are probably cornering the Asian market. I read last week that Nokia sells in year what the other four companies sells in 5 years.

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                      • aborne lbm
                      • Skr
                      • 21 Jan 2009

                      Unbiased, 21 Jan 2009SonyEricsson is going downn, down and down. They are droppi... morehow can they be worried at shipping just under 100 million units thats easily over 100 million pounds so hows that a failure ?? yes they may not be out selling the others but id be happy with over 100 million income!!!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mK9
                        • 21 Jan 2009

                        haha se goes down and down
                        all hail moto!

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                          • Nav
                          • PSd
                          • 21 Jan 2009

                          2nd... Besides 50 million of those would have cost below $50 and sold in India and Africa

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                            • Mqs
                            • 21 Jan 2009

                            SonyEricsson is going downn, down and down. They are dropping ranks like noone else and are loosing way to much money. Some rumors suggest that the company will be split up, i mean the joint-venture between sony and ericcson will be stopped this mid-year. Neither Sony nor Ericsson have any plans to be a major cell-phone supplier.

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                              • arron
                              • SbD
                              • 21 Jan 2009

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