The oecumenical wandering phone market remained weak in the second quarter despite some encouraging sign in smartphone shipments , market place researcher IDC said Thursday .
Mobile sound load come down 10.8 pct yr - on - yr in the 2nd quarter to 269.6 million units , IDC said , noting the figure was an melioration over the first quartern . IDC revise down its first quarter handset loading figure to a 17.2 percent year - on - year decline , from a 15.8 percentage drop in its premature report .
“ The challenge from the old nine months — aggressive channel destocking , alien exchange volatility , and incertain need — continued to plague the mobile phone market , but were not as hard as before , ” says Ramon Llamas , senior inquiry psychoanalyst at IDC , in a statement . Small signs of improvement centered around increased demand for high - final stage handsets , such as smartphones .
IDC predicts the global French telephone market will decline 13 percent in 2009 compared to last year .
The mobile French telephone market has been bad on companies but good for consumer , who benefited with down in the mouth - cost , including on high - end devices such as smartphones , IDC said . cockeyed contest and hot demand has induce a price state of war for smartphones . Apple , for example , cut the price of its iPhone 3 G to $ 99 in June as it released the newfangled iPhone 3GS model .
” Apple ’s price swing on the iPhone 3 GB reflect a trend we carry to continue in upcoming quarter , ” IDC said .
Nokia remained the top mobile headphone vendor in the world in the second stern with consignment of 103.2 million handsets , down 15.4 percent year - on - year , according to IDC . Samsung Electronics took second place among the planetary top five after mobile phone shipment arise 14.2 percent in the 2d quarter to 52.3 million units , while shipments at third piazza LG Electronics rose 6 percent to 29.8 million . Motorola ’s shipments fell 47 per centum year - on - year to 14.8 million units , good for 4th spot globally .
In 5th situation , Sony Ericsson was the only fellowship among the top - five to fail to increase handset shipments in the second quarter over the first one-fourth . The company shipped 13.8 million mobile phone in the second tail , down 43.4 percentage year - on - yr and broken than the 14.5 million handsets it shipped in the first quarter .
