More Than One Billion Served
We’re not talking about hamburgers. MobileCrunch reports that in 2007, more than 1 Billion Mobile phones were sold to consumers. At GotVoice, more mobile phone sales means more people can receive voicemail as text messages, so these stats are very interesting:
The article quotes:
According to figures from Gartner, sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units in 2007. This number is a 16% increase from 2006’s numbers of 999 million units sold. Much of this growth is due to emerging markets like China and India where many people are buying their first handset.
Nokia is still the world’s alpha male of mobile phone manufacturers. It sold 435 million handsets last year. Throughout 2007, Nokia controlled 37.8% of global market share. For the first time, Nokia accounted for 40% of all sales in the fourth quarter.