LG manages to move 20 million QWERTY handsets through 2008
Made slightly less impressive by earlier news this morning regarding Nokia’s reported claim of having shipped 13 million 5800 XMs 5310 XMs, LG has some news of its own today: 20 million QWERTY handsets sold worldwide. Considering the wide range of QWERTY handsets the company has produced over the years, the number 20 million might not seem overly staggering. What we find most impressive however, is LGs rate of growth when it comes to QWERTY sales. Have a look:
- 2005: 350,000 units sold
- 2006: 600,000 units sold
- 2007: 2.7 million units sold
- 2008: 12.7 million units sold
In other words, in the midst of the most severe economic downturn in decades, LG surged from nearly 3 million QWERTY handsets sold in 2007 to nearly 13 million handsets sold in 2008. Wow. There’s no question that a battle is taking place as far as handset trends are concerned. Design-wise, QWERTY and full touchscreen handsets are probably the two most desirable form factors right now; surprising perhaps, considering these two builds are on opposite ends of the spectrum. LG’s success with QWERTYs is good news for all you button lovers out there however… Despite the increasing numbers of new full touchscreen designs, don’t expect manufacturers to do away with buttons any time soon.
Congrats LG!
They make very nice devices, I’m not surprised.
who cares about qwerty…i’ll take either one of those Korean models instead!
I’ll take the LG phones and the two Korean girls
do touchscreen’s factor into this equation at all?? LG VU…
When have you seen either an LG or samsung phone without a model next to it? They probably know less about the phones than Michael Bay did.
LG Dare is better then the Vu. The majorty of LGs QWERTYs were on Verizon. There are more QWERTYS in Verizons line up. The reason were not seeing many phones right now is because were trying to get this Alltel network over to Verizon and the Towers, Stores, Phones, training, call centers, ect. Ive seen the line up for 09 from Verizon, and I am sure people will love it and we will see a big change in peoples views in Verizons. I know its hard to wait, but it will all pay off.
Many Alltel markets are being merged starting this month.
Tell us the lineup. Any anadroid or is it just a blackberry storm2(crappy) or voyeger 2 (probaly boring)
Those qwerty phones look confy and fluffy.
Yes it is hard to avoid the charms of a lovely Korean Girl, hmmmmmm.
The companies who stick with the buttons will eventually rest along side GM.