The world's second largest handset-maker has just announced bumper results, thanks in large part to the success of the RAZR, which is currently the bestselling mobile phone in America.
In the US, LG's high-end G2 helped it increase its share of sales, to 8%, making it the third largest handset maker in sales behind Apple and Samsung.
For the record, LG is the world's third largest handset maker after leader Nokia and Samsung, with an aspiration to become number two by 2012.
And as Motorola's market share, still tops in the U.S., declines on the world's stage, analysts predict LG could overtake the flagging U.S. handset maker later this year, becoming the third largest handset maker worldwide.
The world's third largest mobile handset maker, Chinese firm Huawei, has recently launched a big screen smartphone, a phablet (phone+tablet), with an eye to challenging Samsung and Apple in the global smartphone market.
Besides Nokia, Symbian's backers include Motorola, the world's second-largest handset maker, Siemens, the number two in Europe, SonyEricsson, Panasonic and Samsung.
Nokia is still the world's second-largest handset maker, producing nearly 80m every quarter – but the majority are low-end "feature phones" with wafer-thin profit margins.
Motorola, the world's second-largest handset maker, is aggressively restructuring, cutting 12,000 employees from its consumer division after its global share of handsets fell from 16.9% to 14.6% last year.
The U.S.' Motorola, the world's second-largest handset maker, is aggressively restructuring, cutting 12,000 employees from its consumer division after its global share of handsets fell from 16.9% to 14.6% last year.
Analysts are now wondering whether Motorola remains the world's fifth-largest handset maker.
