Mobile Phones – Some of the World’s Biggest Suppliers
There are many suppliers of mobile or cell phones in the world. In this brief article we name some of them and provide a little background information to help you to learn more about the particular organisation. It is appropriate that we begin in the Untied States, which has the biggest market in mobile phone retail sales.
The giant Apple Corporation is well renowned for producing the Apple iphone, one of the best selling world brands. Also popular in the field of Smart Phones is Palm Inc, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard and maker of the Palm Smartphone, the first of which was produced in 1996. Based in San Diego, Kyocera is a major manufacturer of wireless mobile phones and wireless cameras. Motorola is another United States based corporation that produces a wide range of mobile phones from its base in Illinois.
Moving out of the United States, the Canadian based multinational mega-corporation, Research in Motion makes and retails a wide range of Blackberry hand held devices. Its presence in the worldwide smartphone market makes it unquestionably a real giant in its field.
Away from North America, another major international presence in the world of mobile phone technology was established with the merger of the Sony Corporation and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson in 1991, making it one of the world’s major producers of mobile phones and mobile technology.