This year estimated unit shipments is of 1 billion (1,009,400,000 units).
SonyEricsson did very well this year and is now the 4th manufacturer best seller (in units), overtaking LG.
By the time of writing, BenQ has not yet released its Q4 financial results.
‡ In million units
† BenQ put its German subsidiary (formerly Siemens Mobile) in insolvency
By quarter:
MANUFACTURER
Q4 2006
Q3 2006
Q2 2006
Q1 2006
UNIT SOLD‡
MARKET SHARE
UNIT SOLD‡
MARKET SHARE
UNIT SOLD‡
MARKET SHARE
UNIT SOLD‡
MARKET SHARE
Nokia
105.5
36.4%
88.5
34.7%
78.4
33.0%
75.1
33.1%
Motorola
65.7
22.7%
53.7
21.1%
51.9
21.8%
46.1
20.3%
Samsung
32.0
11.0%
30.7
12.0%
26.3
11.1%
29.0
12.8%
Others
43.8
15.1%
45.7
17.9%
50.2
21.1%
47.6
21.0%
SonyEricsson
26.0
9.0%
19.8
7.8%
15.7
6.6%
13.3
5.9%
LG
17.0
5.9%
16.5
6.5%
15.3
6.4%
15.6
6.9%
Total
290.0
100.0%
254.9
100.0%
237.8
100.0%
226.7
100.0%
‡ In million units
2005 Unit Shipments
Year 2005 showed that 813 million of handests was sold.
Also, note that by end of 2005, Siemens sold its mobile operations to BenQ which thus leaped to the 6th rank.
Q4 2005, the Big Six manufacturers had 74.8% market share.
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