FACTBOX-Fourth-quarter 2008 handset sales by vendor

Jan 23 (Reuters) - The world's second-largest cellphone
maker Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Friday it won a
larger share of the handset market in October-December quarter,
but at expense of profit which fell sharply. [ID:nLN402792]

The cellphone market shrank in October-December for the
first time in more than six years, and is set to fall further
this year. [ID:nLN680069]

The following is a summary of fourth-quarter sales in
millions of units, as reported by the world's top five handset
vendors. Motorola will unveil finalised figures on Feb 3.

Q4 2008 Q3 08 Q4 07 %change

yr-on-yr

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) 113.1 117.8 133.5 -15

Samsung Electronics 52.8 51.8 46.3 +14

LG Electronics (066570.KS) 25.7 23 23.7 +8

Sony Ericsson (6758.T) 24.2 25.7 30.8 -21

Motorola MOT.N 19 25.4 40.9 -54

Apple (AAPL.O) sold 4.4 million iPhones in the fourth
quarter. [ID:nN21498027]. RIM RIM.TO RIMM.O sold 6.7 million
Blackberry's during its September-November quarter.

The following are underlying operating profit margins from
the companies' cellphone operations:

Q4 2008 Q3 08 Q4 07

Nokia (NOK.N) 12.1 18.6 22.8

Samsung (005930.KS) 2.0 7.3 11.4

Motorola n/a -27 -8

Sony Ericsson (ERICb.ST) -5 0 13

LG Electronics 5.2 11.5 8.8

(Reporting by Tarmo Virki, editing by Dan Lalor)