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Fell slightly as sales of mobile phones last year, despite fears of analysts. This sold a total of 1.21 billion mobile phones, or 0.9% less than in 2008, as reported by market research firm Gartner. And although the initial estimates have reason eleo economic crisis, a decline in sales of more than 5% ultimately had an increase of 8.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009.

H Nokia remained at the top and in 2009, 440.9 million handset sales. This translated to sales of approximately 30 million devices less than in 2008. This led to shrink the percentage of manufacturers in the Finns 38,6% in 36,4%.

Much better to go second Samsung, Selling 235.7 million devices, representing 35 million more than in 2008. So increased by 3% market share, reaching 19,5%.

Lever against the development were present, according to Gartner, the smartphones. The sales which increased by 23.8% in 2009. Although Nokia has continued to hold the primacy in this market segment, the share of Symbian models declined from 52.4 to 46.9%.

The second in this market, RIM the BlackBerry, has increased by almost 3% of the rate, reaching 19.9%. Apple is the iPhone displaced from third on the Windows Mobile, winning 14.4% of the market.

SOURCE:Gartner