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}.
billion kasi tao sa china kaya ganun
@daniel: not really .. i have classmates with htc, moto and sony ericsson and they also have cheap phones, and by cheap, i mean 7k-10k, without wifi .. but, zte’s phones are REALLY cheap.. but, i think they shouldn’t only focus on cheap phones, i think they should also make high-end phones.. they’re the 4th largest in the world, they have the right and should really play with the big guys in the industry.. :D congrats though
most of it is in China, I bet
Let’sing along:
AB ZTE FG…..
may punto sa daniel, sobrang laki ng china kaya kuhang kuha niya yung sales.
guys… CHINA has 1.6 billion people. no wonder they patronize they’re own just like the Japanese and the Koreans. and they sell phones with prices not higher than 10,000 pesos kaya obviously dami nila na ship.
HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson are high-end manufacturers kaya wag na magtaka kung onti lng sales nila… sino ba naman bibili ng 40k na cellphone haha. ung may trabaho lng siguro may afford nun… wala nga akong nakikitang motorola, htc at SE sa kalsada at sa school eh… puro nokia, cherry mobile haha.
Yes sa china palang ang dami na nila, hatak na sa sales. and ZTE usually rebrands their products, lalo na pag naki-team up sila sa mga telco’s or other 3rd party providers. I saw some of their phones, not bad as like what we know about the usual China phones.