China market: Over 42 million GSM, CDMA handsets sold in 1Q08
Digitimes is reporting that 42.1 million handsets were sold in the FIRST QUARTER of 2008 in China alone. Is that a typo? 42 million handsets in ONE QUARTER?
42.1 million GSM and CDMA handsets were sold in the China market in the first quarter of 2008. Nokia, Samsung and Motorola were the top-three vendors with a combined market share of 60.1%, according to China-based consulting company Analysys International.
For CDMA models alone, Samsung was the largest vendor with a market share of 28.9%, followed by China-based Huawei Technologies with 25% and LG Electronics with 14.2%, Analysys indicated.
