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Soren Petersen: Cell phone industry to sell 4 Billion handsets by 2010

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 at 12:33 AM

Is this a typo?


"We
shipped one million mobile handsets globally last year and we expect this number
to touch four billion by 2010." – Nokia Senior Vice President, Entry Business Unit, Soren Petersen

The Inquirer proves it is a typo:

1.02 billion cell phone units were sold in 2006 with unit growth of between 10-15 per cent expected in 2007.

Quadruple in less than 4 years? Who wants to take bets?

I simply do not think this is going to happen.

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Viipottaja

    I seriously suspect the “journalist” did not know what the hell he/she is writing about. What I think Mr. Petersen ment was that the global number of phones in use would hit 4 billion by 2010 (not units sold in a year).

  • Viipottaja

    I seriously suspect the “journalist” did not know what the hell he/she is writing about. What I think Mr. Petersen ment was that the global number of phones in use would hit 4 billion by 2010 (not units sold in a year).