Sale of mobile phone handset still rising

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New handsets and lower prices helped boost worldwide sales
New handsets helped Samsung overtake Motorola as the world's second most popular mobile phone brand between July and September, research has found.
The market share of the world's biggest handset maker, Nokia, also recovered to 30.9% from 29.7% in the second quarter.

Nokia still sells more than double the amount of rivals, but its market share remains below levels of a year ago.

Gartner found worldwide handset sales rose 26% to 167 million in the quarter - with all companies seeing increases.

South Korea's Samsung had a 13.8% share of the market in the third quarter, compared with 11.2% last year.

Motorola's share slipped to 13.4% from 14.7% but Gartner said the US firm should benefit from new product launches in the run up to Christmas.

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