LG reaches 20 million in QWERTY phone sales
updated 01:15 pm EDT, Wed April 15, 2009
LG sells 20M QWERTY phones
Korea's LG has announced on Wednesday that it has sold 20 million phones equipped with QWERTY keyboards worldwide. The majority of the sales came from North America, where the first LG QWERTY phone was the VX9800 introduced on the Verizon network in 2005. The announcement comes less than a week after LG said it has shipped more than two million touchscreen Cookie handsets.
The numbers have grown exponentially, as LG sold 350,000 QWERTY headphones in all markets, 600,000 in 2006, growing to 2.7 million in 2007 and ballooning to 12.7 million during 2008. Accordingly, LG has sold nearly 3.7 million QWERTY cellphones so far in 2009 to reach the milestone.
The success has largely been thanks to handsets like the LG enV and LG Rumor in the US. The former sold 8 million units, with the latter accounting for 6 million sales. The Voyager series of handsets sold more than 3.5 million units. The milestone also helped LG to reach a 20.8% market share in the cellphone market in North America, which marks a significant improvement over the 15.8% share it held in 2007. [via UnwiredView]
