Swedish-Japanese moble phone maker Sony Ericsson expects the number of 3G handsets, capable of live video calls, sold in 2005 to double from 2004 to around 10 percent of all phones sold, the firm said on Tuesday. "3G will ... become increasingly important as the year progresses," Sony Ericsson Chief Executive Miles Flinet said in a statement. "Although 3G sales amounted to less than 5 percent of the overall market in 2004, we expect this segment to come close to 10 percent of overall volumes during the year with further rapid expansion in 2006," he said.
Sony Ericsson, the sixth-biggest mobile phone maker after Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens and LG Electronics, also said it would unveil its 2005 strategy, focused on music, at the 3GSM mobile phone industry congress in Cannes, France, next week. Flint will also announce how the company is looking to expand its product range.
The world's biggest mobile phone maker Nokia has said widespread commercialisation of 3G phones in the second half of the year would drive sales growth and that about a quarter of its planned phone launches this year would be 3G phones.
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