The battle for mobile phone market share rages indefinitely. In the wake of Motorola’s plunge last year, Samsung has built a strong second place after undisputed leader Nokia. Once again LG overtakes Sony Ericsson and ends up as number four, just a hand’s breadth after Motorola after the first quarter 2008.

It’s interesting that fairly small countries like Finland and Korea maintain such strong positions in this knowledge intensive, high tech game.