Music Phone Sales
Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments
2004 650 million
2005* 700 million
2006* 780 million
2007* 840 million
2008* 890 million
   
Worldwide Mobile Music Phone Shipments
(Phones that can store and play music)
2004 57.5 million
2005* 112.6 million
2006* 194.1 million
2007* 299.6 million
2008* 439.2 million

* Estimated
Source: Strategy Analytics

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Phones that also play music will soon become all the rage. This year, some 112 million music phones are expected to ship -- more than double the number of MP3 players. That could begin to undermine the dominance of the iPod, while it eats away at what little market share other MP3 players hold. The one thing that could thwart the advance of music phones: If Apple launches an iPod phone.

Posted: 4/14/05

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