The top two players are Nokia and Motorola; Samsung's revenue had fallen 7 percent.
Contributing factors:
S/E sold 74.8M units in 2006, with 60M music enabled phones. 17 million of these were walkman phones. Average pre-tax profits are about €21.5 per phone.
Strongest growth was in Latin America, Asia and Europe
According to the article on FinFacts, "Sony Ericsson increased market share during the quarter due to the continued success of products such as the K800/K790 Cyber-shot phone and Walkman phone line-up." The Average Selling Price was higher than expected because of strong demand for S/E's handsets.
It looks like S/E was able to increase market share with new products in a mid-tier, higher margin category, without reducing profitability.
Sony Ericsson overtook Samsung in mobile sales in Q4 2006
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