Apple owns 1.1% of Global Phone sales for 2008

Apple continues to improve on their performance in the mobile phone industry as they’ve now managed to snag 1.1% of global sales by the end of 2008.

That’s a considerable improvement since they only had 0.3% market share back in 2007, and it even bested their expectation of 1%. As a result, they’re now tied with HTC who is already an established name in the industry. This is quite impressive considering that Apple only has one handset model to offer the public and its availability is quite limited globally as opposed to its rivals in the field.

Not surprising are the top names on the list; Nokia, Samsung, LG and Motorola. Nokia continues to dominate with 38.6% market share while Samsung had 16.2%. Motorola managed to tie LG at third with 8.3% although we know that LG still has the slight advantage over Motorola.

This is all according to the study done by ABI Research. While the group didn’t give specific predictions for 2009, they do expect Apple, RIM and HTC to perform very well this year. We’re no experts in terms of crunching up the numbers, but with the ways things are going in the industry, we certainly don’t disagree with them.

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