Gartner just announced their latest research on mobile phone sales. Here are some of the highlights

1. Q1 2008 worldwide sales – 294.3 Million
2. Growth in emerging markets [Asia/Pacific, Latin America] and slowdown in mature ones [US, Europe, Japan]
3. Nokia maintains market leadership with 39.1% market share
4. Motorola woes continue – share drops from 18.4% to 10.2%
5. LG and Samsung capitalize on Motorola’s challenges.

The entire press release is located here and is very informative. If you are in the mobile software/hardware business, I’d strongly recommend you check it out.

July 17th, 2008 Subscribe to the RSS feed!