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Chinese has taken another lead as one of the largest mobile phone sellers. China’s ZTE Corp has replaced BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) among the world’s top five mobile phone sellers. According to a report by tech research company IDC, the low-priced cell phone maker ZTE also pushed Apple to the last spot on the Top-5 list on the back its

The report “Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker” said Apple was pushed from the fourth slot to the last position despite shipping a record number of iPhones during the fourth quarter. BlackBerry had made to the IDC’s Top-5 list only last April. Figures say, Nokia remained the No. 1 mobile phone seller, shipping 123.7 million units during the quarter even though its sales declined 2.4 per cent since last year. Samsung was at the second spot, with 20.1 per cent share of the global market.  At 30.6 million units, LG Electronics also posted 9.7 declines in its sales since last year. Riding on zooming sales of its low-priced mobile phones, China’s ZTE Corp grabbed the fourth spot from Apple by shipping 16.8 million units during the quarterly period.  With 16.2 million iPhone units shipped during the period, Apple came last on the Top-5 list.  (Report by IDC, taken from Times of India)

The IDC being optimistic on both RIM and Apple in the emerging markets like India, China, and the Middle East. Report claims 1.39 billion mobile phones were shipped during the year ending Dec 31, 2010 – up from 1.17 billion sold in 2009. China delivering hard on technology advances, recently tops in browsing as Baidu beaten Google and remarkable rise in Mobile internet users. China’s growth is tremendous & surprising, since such exponential figures show drastic changes in the worldwide market. Chinese already started targeting continental markets, began with Asia & now Europe. China & India economic growth pace had helped whole world to recover quickly from recession. Chinese biz empires boom rapidly & spreading its arm across the global Internet market.