Smartphone sales top 417,000 units in 1Q08 in Taiwan

May 16th, 2008 | by ozman |

Taiwani market is moving high towards new records. smart phone share however what needs to be notes is that nokia is still high in market share . A record a sale of Sales of smartphones in the Taiwan market grew by 38% on year to top 417,400 units in the first quarter of this year, with Nokia taking up a 70% share in the segment, according to data released recently by Canalys.

High Tech Computer (HTC) was ranked the second largest vendor in the Taiwan smartphone market with a more than 10% share, followed by Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Asustek Computer each having single-digit shares, the data showed.

With regard to operating system, Symbian accounted for an over 70% market share, followed by Windows Mobile with a 20% share, and Linux with a single-digit market share, Canalys said.

In other news, global sales of smartphones increased by 38.2% on year to 32 million in the first quarter of this year, according to Rachel Lashford, head of Canalys, Asia Pacific.

Global sales of smart mobile devices are expected to top 243 million units by 2010, with unit sales in the Asia Pacific region accounting for 95.5 million units, Canalys estimated.

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