Was actually surprised to read the recent IDC report which puts China’s ZTE (remember the ZTE-NBN deal?) as the world’s 4th largest handset maker for 2010, even surpassing Apple which was bumped down to 5th.
Nokia still leads the pack with 30.8% share of total shipments for the year ( with 123.7 million, though that’s still down by 2.4% from the previous year). It’s then followed by Samsung at 20.1% (80.7 million handsets) and LG Electronics at 7.6% (30.6 million).
ZTE came in at 4th with 16.8 million handsets (4.2% share) where it pushed down Apple to 5th with 4.0% share (16.2 million). ZTE makes handsets for 3rd parties like Verizon in the US.
Phone manufacturers shipped a total of 1.39 billion handset units in 2010, still up from the 1.17 billion units shipped in 2009 {source IDC}.
Sr. abe, mgakno na po ngyn ang iphone 3gs? still 35k?
Thanks for sharing your valuable information.
That shows that ZTE has an impact, and they are part of production. http://learner-spot.blogspot.com/
@icarus and Jorlan – yep. That’s basically it. China IS a big market.
ZTE sells phone in CHINA, and China is a very big market…
@hubes – not necessarily. In the $US, almost all iPhones are sold at $199 to $299 level. The older models went down to $99 coz they’re subsidized.
how about in terms of sales amount. baka no. 1 apple because each phone costs 25k up.
Where’s Sony Ericsson? Where’s HTC? Where’s Motorola.. where??
China is a huge market for phones. ZTE can get most of its sales from there. That’s why it’s no doubt it outmatch Apple in terms of number of units sold.
Bayantel’s 1st wireless landline was a ZTE phone…my mom had 1..
Very, very surprising indeed.
Also, the 2nd and 3ed spots are relatively new to the mobile phone market.
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They may not be that famous because they generally don’t sell devices under the “ZTE” brand, but under the telco’s name.
@Markem: SE, motorola, etc are the “others” category
hmmm baka kasama sa bilang yung usb doggle or yung wifi device nila.. basta nilalagyan siguro ng sim.. palagay nyo
@realjarley: Actually, ZTE is already being used. Especially on landline phone like what is used by bayantel and other companies which offers wireless landlines. Even the wireless broadband USB dongles offered by smart is ZTE
bakit yung SE wala dyan?
WHAT IF, typo yan at HTC pala talaga yan.
Wala lang, hehe.
Panu kaya kung natuloy yung ZTE sa pinas, anu kaya ang naging epekto nito sa bansa natin?
do you own a ZTE phone @sir Abe?
I just knew that ZTE is a phone brand.