Motorola smartphone sales exceed HTC World's fourth

February 8 Morning News, according to the Taiwan media reports, according to IDC's latest report, the fourth quarter last year, Motorola smartphone sales volume 2.5 million, the first time to defeat HTC, boarded four throne, HTC is the top five in the annual growth rate of the lowest volume of the company. HTC has about 2.4 million smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of last year, the city accounted for about 4.4% of the market, with a weak gap in the 4.6%, Motorola accounted for the fifth place, in the top five smart machine manufacturers, Nokia, RIM BlackBerry, Apple and Motorola's annual growth rate of more than 37%,　　HTC's annual growth rate is less than 10%. IDC pointed out that in the fourth quarter last year, smartphone sales volume of about 54.5 million, compared with the same period of 39% growth, in the world's top five brands, only Nokia, HTC lower than the industrial growth rate, but Nokia's annual growth rate of about 37.7%, quite close to the growth rate of the industry.　　The biggest increase was Apple, up to 97.7%, and Motorola grew 56.3%.　　In last year's rankings, the first place is still Nokia, which last year accounted for about 38.9%, annual growth of about 11.9%, the second is Rim BlackBerry, the city accounted for 15.6% from the year before last 19.8%, and Apple from the previous 9.1% to 14.4%, the top three rankings are the same as the year before. According to the IDC report, HTC last year's smartphone shipments were about 8.1 million, up 8% from the previous 7.5 million, but the city's share fell from 5% to last year's 4.6%, keeping fourth place unchanged.　　The fifth place is Samsung's 3.3%, shipments are growing 5.6% from the previous year. Last year, around 174 million of global smartphone sales, up 15.1% from the previous year's 151 million, accounted for about 15.4% of all handset sales, about 12.7% micro-growth over the years before. (Roy)