Mobile Phone

Worldwide mobile sales increased 32% in 2010 and smartphone shipments surpassed those of personal computers according to Technology Research firm Gartner. Smartphone sales accounted for 19% of total mobile sales last year.

Apple the maker of iPhone, and Canada's RIM, maker of Blackberry, displaces Sony Ericsson and Motorola in the rankings of the world's largest mobile manufacturers.


World Mobile Phone sales in 2010 .
1) Nokia 461.3 million units (but market share drop from 36.4% in 2009 to 28.9% in 2010)
2) Samsung 281.1 million units
3) LG 114.1 million units
4) Blackberry 47.4 million units
5) iPhone 46.6 million units
6) Sony Ericsson 41.8 million units
7) Motorola 38.5 million units

Nokia and LG's drop in market share was due in part to their failure to make more impact in the rapidly growing smartphone market.

I am now using a Nokia E52 handphone, my wife a Blackberry curve, my daughter a Sony Ericsson, my son a Nokia and my other daughter a Samsung.

Asian brand

The emergence of South Korean brand LG on the world stage is part of an important trend reshaping global business:the rise of non-Japanese Asian brand. For the past 60 years, Asian manufacturers proved highly adept at producing consumer products with great efficiency but were not nearly as good at designing and marketing them under their own brand names.

Asian companies are now ascending the value chain, developing expertise in innovation, marketing and design. They are building brands in addition to products. Korea's Hyundai, is becoming the world's best car, while Samsung, not Nokia, is the top mobile-phone brand in the US. In computers, Taiwan Acer has become the world's No. 2 PC brand, ahead of Dell.

We hope a Malaysian product will one day become a world brand...........

Note: world mobile-phone market share in 2009 (source : IDC)

Nokia 38.1%

Samsung 20.1%

LG 10.4%

Sony Ericcson 5.0%

Motorola 4.9%