Second profit warning for Sony Ericsson
After posting poor Q4 profits earlier this year, it seems there's more trouble ahead for Sony Ericsson, as they issued their second profit warning this year, putting the blame on enced by the second profit warning of 2008 that was issued last week. SE is pinpointing the blame of unlikey seeing profits rise for the second qurter on "disappointing European sales of its mid- and high-end mobile phones". With the recently announced C905 8MP cameraphone, and forthcoming XPERIA X1, these two should hope to give the maker good results for the third quarter, but there's still the mid-end range to tackle too.
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Motorola's Q2 handset shipments to put them in fifth place?
According to Digitimes, Motorola's handset shipments for the second quarter of this year will place them in fifth place, behind Nokia, Samsung, LG, and Sony Ericsson, in terms of marketshare. The total number of handsets shipped by Motorola will equate to approximately 22-23 million handsets, in comparison to 28.1 million from LG, and 24 million from Sony Ericsson. However, for the first quarter of the year, Motorola retained their fourth position, falling behind LG, but ahead of Sony Ericsson. However, all is not lost for Motorola, as their soon-to-debut five megapixel ZN5 cameraphone looks to lift Motorola off of their feet. Considering Motorola's tendency to produce below average cameraphone, the ZN5 is a very nice surprise indeed. The Kodak branding – they only produced applications for the ZN5, not the camera sensor itself, will hopefully promote the ZN5 to would-be-buyers, more than if it was Motorola alone, without Kodak. Not only does the ZN5 have a five megapixel camera, but also has Wi-Fi connectivity, and a 3.5 mm jack to boot. You can have a read of your comprehensive review of the ZN5 here
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Nokia outs Q2 2008 results – ships 122 million handsets
Nokia has released its Q2 results for last this, and, in total, they shipped 122 million handsets, representing 21% year on year growth and a 6% sequential increase– ten million handsets of which were from the multimedia-focused N-Series line, and around two million of the business-focused E-Series line. The amount of smartphone handsets shipped in the second quarter of this year increased by 1.4 million – 15.3 million against 13.9 million on last years second quarter. Services and software net sales of EUR 119 million, were up 42% sequentially. Learn more about how the company fared in the second quarter
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