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To: Eric L who wrote (120696)	6/19/2002 6:38:03 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 152472

Samsung sees 10 pct market share in 2002 forbes.com Reuters, 06.19.02, 6:23 AM ET By Jennifer Tan SINGAPORE, June 19 (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co on Wednesday raised its mobile phone sales and market share forecasts for 2002, defying industry worries over saturation and consumer reluctance to buy new handsets. Samsung, the world's third-largest handset maker, expects to sell more than 40 million mobiles in 2002, up 43 percent from last year, and grab a market share of 10 percent versus 9.6 percent in the first quarter and 7.1 percent in 2001. "We are selling in the mid- to high-end segment and are hitting such numbers in this segment," Ihn-Chul Chung, vice president of Samsung's Mobile Communications Division, told Reuters in an interview at the CommunicAsia trade show. "We are selling slightly less than Nokia but more than the other vendors because consumers are buying Samsung's design and pricing." The target of 40 million units this year is higher than the 36 million Samsung had forecast earlier. It sold 28 million in 2001 and 9.5 million in the first three months of this year. In the March quarter, Samsung rose to third position after Finland's Nokia <NOK1V.HE>, which had a 34.7 percent market share, and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people) of the United States at 15.5 percent, according to Gartner Dataquest. Samsung was ranked ranked fourth in 2001. The mobile phone industry suffered a 3.2 percent fall in sales in 2001 from the year before -- the first drop in 10 years -- as cash-strapped operators cut subsidies and consumers delayed upgrades after global economies slowed. Samsung expects the global market to chalk up handset sales of 400-415 million units in 2002, against 399.6 million in 2001, in line with what other handset makers are forecasting. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE Chung said Samsung was able to gain an edge over its rivals by focusing on colour screens and timely launches of new models. "Colour will be the key word for a while, especially with the onset of photo messaging," he said, referring to next-generation multimedia messaging where users can send pictures and sound together with text. "We also launch our new models very quickly." Timeliness was perceived to be a weak area for Nokia, with it coming under pressure in recent months as rivals like Samsung and Sony Ericsson <6758.T><ERICb.ST> grabbed the lead with their colour-screen handsets, analysts said. Nokia's colour-screen imaging phone, the 7650 with an in-built digital camera, will be available before the end of the month. Samsung unveiled two new colour-screen models at CommunicAsia on Wednesday. Shares of Samsung, also the world's largest memory chip maker, plunged four percent to 348,500 won on Wednesday on news of a U.S. investigation into alleged antitrust activities among computer chip manufacturers. Copyright 2002, Reuters News Service

To: Eric L who wrote (120696)	7/12/2002 12:33:59 AM
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MS: our phone software might not be good enough online.ie The Register 11 Jul 2002 By Andrew Orlowski in London A refreshing wind of honesty seems to be blowing out of Microsoft's phone division these days. Yesterday Roberto Cazzaro gave an interview with IDG in which he admitted he had "no idea" if Microsoft new Smartphone software was good enough to be accepted by the carriers. Cazzaro is director of International Strategy at Microsoft's Mobilie Devices Division, the umbrella for the PDA and phone operations. This is quite a change to the "World Domination tomorrow...the Universe next week" theme that accompanies so many tech launches, and Microsoft's in particular. But after so many delays and reshuffles to the much-vaunted Stinker platform, it's probably hitting the right theme. Even if the message itself - "heck, even I don't know if this works!" will be frostily received by Microsoft's flagship Smartphone vendor Sendo. Sendo's MS-based phone was been delayed for the fourth time this week. Last month Cazzaro was obliged to make a rare retraction on behalf of The Beast. Within 24 hours of informing the press that Microsoft had inked deals with every major US and European wireless carrier, Cazzaro was prodded onto the stage to explain that this wasn't actually the case at all. Promising business deals which don't exist could have exposed Redmond to a class action suit. Significantly, Cazzaro disclosed that the next version of the phone OS due next spring will be based on a new kernel. Stinker and the troubled Pocket PC 2002 are based on the CE 3.0 kernel. Actually, pleading ignorance is a strategy which has served two recent British Prime Ministers (Thatcher/Westland; Major/Arms-to-Iraq) and three recent US presidents very well indeed. You can hardly blame IT executives for following this example. Perhaps the next constitutional amendment should be: "Don't ask me - I only work here." ®