1.2 Billion Mobile Phones Sold in 2009

Telecommunications equipment businesses were still one prominent interest in the world. Last year alone, the world mobile phone sales had reached 1.211 billion units. Wow! The results of the research institute was recently released by Gartner analyst. Even so, the number is still 0.9% lower than mobile phone sales in 2008. Whereas in the 2009 fourth quarter, sales of mobile phones had penetrated the number 340 million units or 8.3% climb than the same quarter the previous year.

Carolina Milanesi, the Research Director of Gartner announced that mobile device market had gone through with positive results during 2009 and, driven by growth in the range of smart phones and mobile lower classes. As quoted by Cellular News, Thursday (25 / 2 / 2010)Milanesi also said that the vendors that focus on smartphones like Apple and Research in Motion gained a great success compared to other mobile vendors, they controlled 14.4% and 19.9% of the world smartphone market