287.1 Million Phones Shipped in Q3

The global mobile phone market has reportedly seen some increase in the third quarter of the ongoing year, although it still remained lower than in the third quarter of last year. IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker shows that the mobile phone shipments in the time frame totaled 287.1 million units all around the world, showing a 6 percent decrease when compared to the same quarter a year ago, though registering a growth of 5.6% from the second quarter 2009.“The mobile phone market is showing the first signs of improvement since the onset of the economic crisis,” says Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team. Full story...