Date: 4th Aug 2010

Report:Global mobile phone shipments to reach 321.2 million in 2nd quarter of 2010

The number of mobile phone shipments in 2Q-2010 has reached 321.2 million, of which WCDMA handsets made up 31%. Growth was 5.9% Quarter-on-Quarter and 19.4% Year-on-Year says ABI Research.

"Mobile phone users seem to be shrugging off their economic woes and going handset shopping," says ABI Research practice director Kevin Burden. "It is remarkable that the smartphone is starting to appeal to a very wide market cross-section. The smartphone is about to go multi-generational and the popularity of the number one handset form-factor, the 'candy-bar', could be waning."

As per the release Nokia has a share of 34.5% in 2Q-2010, slowly droping from the previous quarters.
LG has increase it's share to 9.5% but another Korean mobile maker Samsung not able to continue QoQ market share growth. ABI says Samsung attributes this to the decline in the European economic outlook.
ABI's Vice-President for Forecasting Jake Saunders comments, "Samsung is still gunning for Nokia's pre-eminent spot, but we will have to see if Samsung's recent smartphone launches, such as the Galaxy S, will help it resume its march on Nokia."
Apple's share shrank slightly to 2.6%, blame it on antenna issues. Blackberry maker RIM has maintained a 3.5% share. Motorola's 2Q numbers were down on 1Q-2010, at 8.3 million (2.6%).