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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Mobile phone statistics
Here's a new round of statistics from Gartner for the mobile phone market. Gartner estimates that 986M phones will be sold this year, which is 21% more than last year. It doesn't look good for BenQ.
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| Provider | Sold units Q3 2006 | Share Q3 2006 | Sold units Q3 2005 | Share Q3 2005 |
| Nokia | 88.1 | 35.1 | 67.2 | 32.5 |
| Motorola | 51.9 | 20.6 | 38.6 | 18.7 |
| Samsung | 30.6 | 12.2 | 25.9 | 12.5 |
| Sony Ericsson | 19.4 | 7.7 | 13.8 | 6.7 |
| LG | 15.0 | 6.0 | 13.5 | 6.5 |
| BenQ | 6.1 | 2.4 !!! | 9.8 | 4.7 |
| Other | 40.2 | 16.0 | 37.9 | 18.3 |
| Total | 251.3 | 100.0 | 206.7 | 100.0 |
