MOBILE PHONES AREA

SAN FRANCISCO - The increasing share of the smartphone market made a major contribution in increasing the number of mobile phone sales. No wonder if RIM and Apple managed to shift the Motorola.

In the list of 10 mobile phone brand with the highest sales list, in the first quarter of 2010, the Motorola 'parachuting' into position 8. While RIM and Apple pushed into each to position 5 and 6. Oddly, the successful vendor ZTE phones precedes Motorola with a 'perched' in position 7.

RIM, which only brings Blackberry smart phone, achieving the best results in a list of 10 brands of mobile phones in the first quarter, with shipments increasing by 364 000 units or 3.6 percent compared with the previous quarter. This is quite a challenge in the world of cell phones, and even managed to put RIM in position # 5. Whereas previously, RIM has only occupied the 8th position in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Apple in the first quarter to send 8.8 million smartphone. Every single iPhone gives 3.04 per cent share of global shipments. Mobile phone shipments increased by 0.2 percent from 8.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. This figure is quite put Apple in the position of number six in the first quarter. In the previous quarter, Apple occupies the 9th position.

RIM and Apple is the largest smart phone brand in the ranks of Top 10 brands. This position is still mastered almost every quarter.

Conversely, in the first quarter, Motorola posted a sales decline 29.2 percent to only 8.5 million units, down from 12 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. This causes the company's rating slipped two positions to rank eighth, behind Apple and handset OEMs from China, ZTE.

This data is collected iSuppli based on unit shipments worldwide, and cited okezone via Cellular News, Friday (21/05/2010).