Samsung leads China 3G mobile handset market

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Samsung Electronics, world’s second largest mobile handset manufacturer, has reported to have attained the number one position in the Chinese 3G handset market. The Korean firm topped China’s TD-SCDMA market, holding a 23.6% in first seven months of 2009, followed by DOPOD with a 19.4% share, ZTE with a 16% share, COOLPAD with a 15.8% share.
LG Electronics stood at fifth position with an 11.6% share in the TD-SCDMA market.
Samsung also led the CDMA-2000 handset market for the time frame of May’09- JUly’09 with a market share of 44.1%, followed by LG with a 30.5% share. While, Nokia, the world’s No. 1 handset maker, ranked fourth with a 4.7% percent share in the market.
The WCDMA market was held by Sony Ericsson with a 62.7% share from May to July. Nokia placed second with a 16.3% share, followed by Motorola with 9.5% and Samsung with 7.6%.