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Conventional mobile phone market to save Western Europe

Conventional mobile products featured voice-only and basic Internet-capable of being a savior of Western European mobile market during the quarter III/2009 recorded 5% growth.

Reports International Data Corporation (IDC) said the volume of mobile phone sales in Western Europe during the July-September 2009 reached 46.8 million or up 5% compared with III/2008 quarter sales.

“Traditional phone segment recorded growth of 6% and a savior, because the smart phone segment decreased 2%,” the report titled European Mobile Phone Tracker them.

Samsung – which dominate the conventional mobile phone segment – very menikmat conditions, so that its market share began to approach Nokia.

Meanwhile, the smart phone segment was saved from a more severe decline in sales thanks to the soaring BlackBerry 87%