Cell Phones and Smartphones

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(1) Tsao Yu-fan and Frances Huang, Taiwan Ranked No 3 Cell Phone Exporter in 2011: UNCTAD. Central News Agency, Jan 30, 2013.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/W ... amp;ID=201301300025
("According to statistics released by the UNCTAD, Taiwan's cell phone exports for 2011 totaled US$10.55 billion (NT$312.3 billion), up from NT$7.56 billion in 2010, and much more than the NT$3.72 billion reported in 2009. [Compared with China's $63.19b and S Korea's $15.08b in 2011]")

Note: Unfortunately the UNCTAD yesterday did not release the underlying statistics directly to the public (to news media only). Thus there is no need to read the rest of the press release below.

Asian Dynamism Boosts Trade in IT Goods: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Jan 29, 2013 (No: UNCTAD/PRESS/IN/2013/001; "Source: UNCTADStat").
http://unctad.org/en/pages/Infor ... my=1629;#Commission on Science and Technology for Development&Product_x0020_Taxonomy=1561;#Information Note

the first three paragraphs:

"Global exports of information and communication technology (ICT) goods climbed by four per cent to $1.8 trillion in 2011, according to new data from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

"Figures show that the growth was driven by trade in developing Asia, where such exports reached a record $1.2 trillion for the year. That represents 64 per cent of the world total.

"UNCTAD says ICT goods–products such as mobile phones, smartphones, laptops, tablets, integrated circuits and various other parts and components–now account for 11 per cent of total merchandise exports. The top 10 exporters of ICT goods made up as much as four-fifths of total ICT trade, led by China, which had exports of $508 billion for the year.


(2) Press release: Strong Demand for Smartphones and Heated Vendor Competition Characterize the Worldwide Mobile Phone Market at the End of 2012, IDC Says. IDC, Jan 24, 2013
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23916413
(For 4Q12 global market shares--see Table 1--Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker says, "A good example is Huawei, which overtook LG as a Top 5 vendor in the overall mobile phone market and passed HTC to become a Top 5 smartphone vendor")

Note: For the Calendar Year 2012--four quarters, not just the last quarter--Table 3 shows HTC remains No 4 in global market shares and that Huawei or ZTE are not top 5.