Intel wireless interest. Unit sales up 25% year-over-year in 1st quarter in Korea. Currently all use CDMA ASICS supplied by QCOM. They are moving to a new 2.4 Mbps 1X EVDO wireless technology which does streaming color multimedia on phones and laptops. This is a show piece for the World soccor finals starting May 31. At CTIA show in Orlando, Andy Gove said INTC was moving into wireless chips.
Sales of Mobile Phones Rise 40 Pct. in Q1
April 8, 2002 (SEOUL) -- Overall sales of cellular phones in Korea soared by a yearly comparison of 40 percent
during the first quarter of 2002, according to industry sources.
According to documents released by both Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc., Korea's two
major mobile handset manufacturers, demand for mobile phones reached an estimated 4.07-4.17 million units during
the January-March period. Demand in the same period of 2001 stood below 3 million units.
The report shows that color mobile phones accounted for more than 40 percent in sales, emerging as a key product
in the market.
Samsung Electronics supplied 2.4 million units, obtaining a 55.2 percent share of the market, followed by LG
Electronics with 1.01 million units, a 24.8 percent share.
In the color mobile phone market, Samsung held a 48.7 percent, followed by LG with 36.2 percent.
(Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea) |
