Smartphone makers sold 12.8 percent more units in the third quarter as overall global mobile-phone sales increased 0.1 percent, researcher Gartner Inc said.
Apple Inc enlarged its share of smartphones to 17.1 percent from 12.9 percent a year earlier as it expanded in Europe, Gartner said yesterday in a statement.
Research in Motion Ltd. grew to 20.8 percent, while Nokia Oyj slipped to a 39.3 percent share in smartphones.
“Smartphones continued to represent the fastest-growing segment of the mobile devices market and we remain confident about their potential in the fourth quarter and in 2010,” Carolina Milanesi, a research director at the market-research company, said in the statement.
Nokia’s share of the overall handset market declined to 36.7 percent in the quarter from 38.2 percent a year earlier.
Samsung Electronics Co rose to 19.6 percent while LG Electronics Inc advanced to 10.3 percent, based on the Gartner numbers, which track sales to end users.
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd slipped to fifth place behind Motorola Inc, which is introducing a new phone using Google Inc’s Android system.
Full-year phone shipments will be flat, the researcher said, upgrading its previous forecast of a 4 percent fall. Fourth-quarter sales will increase year on year as new models appear in time for Christmas spending and carriers issue incentive programs, Milanesi said.
Super Typhoon Kong-rey is the largest cyclone to impact Taiwan in 27 years, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said today. Kong-rey’s radius of maximum wind (RMW) — the distance between the center of a cyclone and its band of strongest winds — has expanded to 320km, CWA forecaster Chang Chun-yao (張竣堯) said. The last time a typhoon of comparable strength with an RMW larger than 300km made landfall in Taiwan was Typhoon Herb in 1996, he said. Herb made landfall between Keelung and Suao (蘇澳) in Yilan County with an RMW of 350km, Chang said. The weather station in Alishan (阿里山) recorded 1.09m of
STORM’S PATH: Kong-Rey could be the first typhoon to make landfall in Taiwan in November since Gilda in 1967. Taitung-Green Island ferry services have been halted Tropical Storm Kong-rey is forecast to strengthen into a typhoon early today and could make landfall in Taitung County between late Thursday and early Friday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. As of 2pm yesterday, Kong-Rey was 1,030km east-southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), the nation’s southernmost point, and was moving west at 7kph. The tropical storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 101kph, with gusts of up to 126 kph, CWA data showed. After landing in Taitung, the eye of the storm is forecast to move into the Taiwan Strait through central Taiwan on Friday morning, the agency said. With the storm moving
NO WORK, CLASS: President William Lai urged people in the eastern, southern and northern parts of the country to be on alert, with Typhoon Kong-rey approaching Typhoon Kong-rey is expected to make landfall on Taiwan’s east coast today, with work and classes canceled nationwide. Packing gusts of nearly 300kph, the storm yesterday intensified into a typhoon and was expected to gain even more strength before hitting Taitung County, the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. The storm is forecast to cross Taiwan’s south, enter the Taiwan Strait and head toward China, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The CWA labeled the storm a “strong typhoon,” the most powerful on its scale. Up to 1.2m of rainfall was expected in mountainous areas of eastern Taiwan and destructive winds are likely
The Central Weather Administration (CWA) yesterday at 5:30pm issued a sea warning for Typhoon Kong-rey as the storm drew closer to the east coast. As of 8pm yesterday, the storm was 670km southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻) and traveling northwest at 12kph to 16kph. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 162kph and gusts of up to 198kph, the CWA said. A land warning might be issued this morning for the storm, which is expected to have the strongest impact on Taiwan from tonight to early Friday morning, the agency said. Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼) and Green Island (綠島) canceled classes and work