1.1 billion handsets sold in 2007

2007 was a great year for the giants in the mobile industry. It was also a great year for private individuals like you and me with the introduction of Mobile VoIP.According to news agencies more than 1.1 billion handsets were sold during the financial year. The three leading companies are Nokia with sales in excess of 437 Million handsets, Samsung with just over 161 million and Motorola with a mere 159 million.

After all the hype I personally thought the new iPhone from Apple would come out on tops this year, but funny enough even with all the great free publicity they only got 0.6% market share, selling a whopping 2.3 million handsets.

Google Cheif Executive Eric Schmidt thinks 2008 will be even better with the arrival of what he calls “a truly mobile web”.

‘The arrival of a truly mobile web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution”, Schmidt said on Friday.’

“It’s the recreation of the internet, it’s the recreation of the PC (personal computer) story and it is before us - and it is very likely it will happen in the next year,” he told a panel at the World Economic Forum.” News24

fringsters 2008 is definitely going to be a great year in the mobile arena.
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