Mobile Phone Manufacturers Information

Understanding more about the pros and cons of the various mobile phone manufacturer's can be the difference between choosing the phone of your dreams or the mobile of your nightmares. Each phone manufacturer has it's own styling and user interaction (UI) design, it's own standards for build quality and it's own, often repeated flaws too. 

We all have different tastes and preferences in what we expect from the gadgets we buy which means there really is no perfect mobile phone brand for everyone. Below is come background information on the main mobile phone manufacturers

The Main Mobile Phone Manufacturers

Nokia is the biggest mobile phone brand in the world.  It dominates the sales of mobile phones in most countries, selling around 450 million mobile phones a year around the world.  Nokia is based in Finland and have been making mobile phones since the 1980s.

Nokia make every type of phone imaginable, from cheap and cheerful basic call and text phones right up to advanced smart phones with 5 megapixel cameras and GPS built in.

SonyEricsson is the result of a merger of Ericsson and Sony's mobile phone divisions which aimed to link Ericsson's decades of mobile phone expertise with Sony's excellence in consumer electronics.  This is best demonstrated by SonyEricsson's hugely popular Cybershot cameraphone range and their music phone range that reinvents Sony's Walkman brand.

The SonyEricsson W910i Walkman phone was named phone of the year by the GSM Association (the worldwide organisation to which all mobile phone operators and manufacturers belong). Although SonyEricsson make mobile phones of most types, their cheaper phones tend to be much less popular than those of their rivals.

Samsung have only been making mobile phones since 2002 but they have managed to take the market by storm, becoming the second largest mobile phone brand in the world. Samsung has taken a slightly different approach to Nokia and SonyEricsson, normally focusing more on stylish designs, particularly slim and slider phones, rather than advanced technology itself.

Samsung is a huge South Korean company that makes virtually every type of consumer electronic good, from LCD TVs to MP3 players.  Like SonyEricsson, this broad knowledge helps them to produce great camera phones and music phone.

LG are another South Korean electronics giant.  They are even younger in the mobile phone market, launching in the UK in 2004, and they have also grown at a phenomenal rate to become a challenger for third place in the market.  

Like their Korean cousins they also lean towards stylish design, their 'Chocolate' phone being a big hit.  The stylish and high performance camera phone, the Viewty, is one of the best on the market and it constantly receives great reviews on GadgetStylist.com.

Apple are the newest entrant to the market with their revolutionary iPhone.  Apple's tradition of making beautiful products that are extremely intuitive and rewarding to use has been transferred to the mobile phone world.  No-one could have missed the hype generated by the launch in 2007. 

Apple only make one model of iPhone, the iPhone 3G, although there are rumours of an iPhone Nano in the pipeline sometime in the next year.  

Blackberry is a Canadian firm that specialises in phones that are the ideal business tool, particularly if you want to keep in touch with your email whilst on the move.  They are starting to broaden their appeal by adding more consumer features such as music players and web browsing.   

HTC

Motorola