By Star Chang, posted Aug 31, 2010 at 2:15 PM, 926 views,

The New Kids in Global Cell Phone Sales

Research firm Gartner is reporting that global cell phone sales for the second quarter of 2010 has an increase of 13.8 percent compared to second quarter of 2009. Gartner also published its worldwide cell phone market share rankings for Q2. The most interesting change is the addition of China maker G’Five to the list, while Nokia maintains the number one position. G’Five is the third China cell phone company which has made it to the top 10 ranking, the other two companies are ZTE and Huawei.

Gartner has reported that global cell phone sales for the second quarter of 2010 has a total of 325.6 million units. Nokia maintains the number one position with 34.2 percent share. Samsung is number 2 with 20.1 percent share, followed by LG (9.0 percent), RIM (2.3 percent), Sony Ericsson (3.4 percent), Motorola (2.8 percent), Apple (2.7 percent), HTC (1.8 percent), ZTE (1.7 percent), and G’Five (1.6 percent). Of the top ten manufacturers, only Samsung, RIM, HTC and ZTE showed growth in market share compared with the second quarter of last year. G’Five, the never heard before Chinese cell phone manufacturer, has made into Top 10 sales for 2 straight quarter and their competitor Huawei, well-known for telecom network supply, has been drop out of top 10 for the second quarter of 2010.

G’Five sold more than five million mobile phones throughout the world during the second quarter of 2010 and surpassed all other mobile phone manufacturers when it comes to rate of growth. G’Five only managed to shift significant amount of handsets less than one year ago. The Chinese company was located at Shenzhen China, which was only launched in 2003, is battling with ZTE and Taiwan-based HTC to see who will sell the most units. G’Five is mostly present in emerging countries and has launched more than 300 different handsets. Many of them boosts familiar designs like Sony Ericsson, Nokia or the Blackberry phones, but sport unfamiliar features like dual SIM support, dual batteries and mobile TV.

G’Five CEO has told the Chinese media that they will be targeting the India market for the next step. A lot of consumers like us from the developed country, are not so familiar with the brand G’Five, but they are doing very well in emerging countries like India, Egypt, Brazil and Africa. G’Fives sales ranking is at No.10, and Apple is at No.7, so the new kids on the block are really no kidding! And with the other 2 local competitor, Huawei and ZTE, three companies are all came from Shenzhen, a city in southern China’s Guangdong province. The manufacturer of Apple iPhone’s, Foxconn, is also located in Shenzhen, which is also producing Nokia and Motorola cell phones. Shenzhen is definitely a city of making cell phones for the whole world!

Source: Gartner, Yicai, Twitteling