According to recent reports from NPD Research, the economic slowdown as well as the increased competition greatly affected the sales of mobile phones in United States during the second-quarter of 2008.
The NPD Research’s report said that the sales of mobile handsets to the U.S. consumers totalled to 28 million in the Q2. It was 13 percent lesser compared to the total sales of mobile phones in the same quarter last year. Overall, the total sales reached as much as $2.4 billion which is 2 percent lower compared to the previous year.
Ross Rubin, NPD Research’s director of industry analysis said that the quarterly unit-sales of the mobile phones reached their lowest level since 2005. However, several major mobile handset manufacturers
At least 21 percent of the market was taken by purchased handsets from Motorola. But that was supposed to be higher. It fell 6 percent compared to the market share that the company had during the previous quarter. Motorola was able to get a small profit for the second quarter because they sold more mobile phones than they expected.
On the other hand, Samsung as well as LG Electronics both had the 20 percent of the market share. But both companies admitted that they are expecting a tough business in the next few months because of the economic slowdown worldwide. They still don’t think that the hype over the 3G iPhone will affect their sales.
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