Mobile phone sales slip down in 2009

The Smart-phone Nokia N96 (gadget7)

Largest mobile phone producer in the world, Nokia, assess the condition of gloomy fall in mobile phone business to the next. The company is based in Finland predicts mobile phone sales in 2008 slip down from the target and sales in 2009 also plunged candidate.

In detail, Nokia estimates the total mobile phone sales in 2008 will reach 1.24 billion units. In the original target is 1.26 billion units. And for 2009, sales are also predicted to decline despite Nokia certainly not mention numbers.

However, although the overall mobile phone sales decrease in the future, there are certain segments that are growing, especially from the smart-phone. Therefore, by Rick Simonson, Chief Financial Officer of Nokia.

"After that will befall the entire market, but people will still want a smart-phone. This segment continues to grow," he said, as quoted from Computerworld, Monday (17/11/2008).

He said that the mobile phone of the class, especially E71 series received by the market. Nokia also intends to continue to add new types of lines in the smart-phone business conditions because although the phone is quite bleak, but the smart-phone segment is predicted to be fixed up.

As usual, the decline in the mobile business world is caused by the economic conditions of the global exchange.