The first quarter of 2011 is already passed. With the fast development of mobile technologies lately, certainly you're curious who is the world's top mobile phone vendor in the beginning of this year. Michael Morgan, analyst from research firm ABI issued the results of his research regarding the 10 largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Note If the research is just count the number of mobile phone released by the manufacturer to the retailer and not to consumers directly, while the rankings compiled on the basis of the number of phones sold through bundling operator.
The top is still controlled by Nokia with a mastery of 32.7% or down by 12% compared with the beginning of the year. The decline is still better than the decline in the overall mobile market of 13.9%. Nokia is the largest loss in emerging markets where 77% of the total shipments of the Nokia products derived from this market. They are eroded by Chinese-made mobile phones such as Huawei, ZTE, and TCL.
Samsung still stalking at position number two under Nokia. The company is the longer the more evolved and began approaching Nokia in terms of mastery of the market. Increased its share of the largest Samsung comes from basic-featured phones their growing in thanks by the market. Samsung smart phone shipments are primarily based on Android has increased by 16% if compared to a year ago.
Friends of the men from Samsung page i.e. LG peaked at number 3. Despite last year's LG trouble to penetrate the smart phone market, this year it seems they are beginning to change course to be able to become the top manufacturer of smart phones with the release of the first mobile phone with dual core in the world. In terms of smart phone sales business also generate greater profit margins compared to basic-featured mobile phone sales. This is evident in the presence of Apple in the largest mobile phone maker ranked fourth of the world.
By relying on the iPhone, Apple has put his or her self to the position of four of the world. Major increase took place while Apple is working with Verizon to present the world's first CDMA iPhone 4 and sold up to 2.8 million units during the February-March. Michael predicts growth of Apple will be getting bigger all this with the presence of the iPhone's 2011 4 white and entry of the CDMA version of the iPhone to other countries. Moreover, this year will also present the successor of the iPhone 4.
Fifth position occupied by the manufacturer of Canada maker Blackbery, RIM. The achievement of the RIM are pretty good considering the target they are among business people. Now RIM has seen that the use of Blackberry began to extend into the circle of young people and they begin to make Blackberry become more fun. The launch of the tablet Playbook as reliable media player exposes the seriousness of the RIM in entering new markets. OS 7 and membanyaknya the use of the touch screen on mobile Blackberry that is famous for its QWERTY keyboard as well as the use of technology processors 1, 2 GHz made weapons to face battle with other vendors in 2011.
A manufacturer of high-end phones from Taiwan, HTC was the most protruding at share in 2011. Sony Ericsson also lost share his this year because they lost the market on mobile base and presence-enabled smart phones that are not too many.