Global Phone Sales

A report from Gartner on expected 2012 sales is enlightening. It shows sales of some 419m phones worldwide of which Apple which gets all the attention is about 28m or 6%. Nokia despite all the talk came in second in sales after Samsung. It seems that Nokia and RIM could still pull off a turnaround, its getting harder but they could. Of the two its a hard call. Rim has a new operating system but no apps at all, Nokia has apps. I would bet on Nokia but whether the board has the strength to support Elop over a long haul is the big question.

Unit sales are in thousands.
       
 Company              2Q12       2Q12       2Q11       2Q11
                     Units     Market      Units     Market
                            Share (%)             Share (%)
 Samsung          90,432.1       21.6   69,827.6       16.3
 Nokia            83,420.1       19.9   97,869.3       22.8
 Apple            28,935.0        6.9   19,628.8        4.6
 ZTE              17,936.4        4.3   13,070.2        3.0
 LG Electronics   14,345.4        3.4   24,420.8        5.7
 Huawei Device    10,894.2        2.6    9,026.1        2.1
 TCL               9,355.7        2.2    7,938.9        1.9
 Communications                                   
 HTC               9,301.2        2.2   11,016.1        2.6
 Motorola          9,163.2        2.2   10,221.4        2.4
 Research In       7,991.2        1.9   12,652.3        3.0
 Motion                                           
 Others          137,233.4       32.8  152,989.7       35.7
 Total           419,007.9      100.0  428,661.1      100.0