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Samsung No. 1 in US Cell Phone Market, Dethrones Motorola

by Chris Ziegler on November 7, 2008 at 10:10 AM

No matter how dire Motorola's situation may be, it's still been able to cling to one last title keeping it firmly entrenched in the ranks of the world's mobile manufacturing elite: US phone sales. For years, Motorola has ridden the RAZR gravy train to success on its home turf more than any other, keeping more globally relevant rivals like Nokia and LG at bay.

No longer, though -- Samsung has finally dethroned Moto, upping its share of the US market to 22.4 percent from 16.2 percent a year ago. That leaves Motorola in number two with 21.1 percent, a shocking fall from 32.7 percent in 2007. LG's knocking on the door at 20.5 percent, so unless the boys and girls in Chicago can get their Android-supportin' butts in gear on the double, we could see a drop to number three within a quarter or two.

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, business, motorola, rankings, samsung, superlatives, us

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jNov 24th 2008 2:42PM

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Goodbye Moto Chitown workers. Very arroant when I wokred with some of you a few years back with a marketing firm !

Instead of maintaining a market in the high end cell phone world (which they are design kings) they folded to make inexpensive handsets.

Sometinhg that Samsung can do much better!
Yes Samsung stole the Flip design from moto and yes they still
don't look or perform anything like a moto phone. But MOST consumers don't know any better !

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