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Samsung and LG to grow by taking market share Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola. Volume of global handset sales in 2009 fell 5.2 percent to 1.13 billion units, from 1.19 billion units in 2008.

Year 2009 was a year of gray for the global mobile industry. As a result of the crisis hit, the world’s consumers put off buying a new phone so that the global mobile phone sales volume drops. However, in the midst of these bleak conditions, there are two mobile phone producers are able to steal growth. They are Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc.

In 2009, Samsung and Motorola to increase the volume of global handset sales to them, and took market share from competitors such as Nokia Corp., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, and Motorola Inc.. In a recent report, research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) found that the volume of global handset sales in 2009 fell 5.2 percent to 1.13 billion units, from 1.19 billion units in 2008. IDC confirmed, the decrease in sales volume due to the impact of the global financial crisis. In 2009 Nokia still dominates the global mobile phone market with a share of 38.3 percent.

The appearance of tablets belong Apple iPad was not able to hypnotize many people to possess it. A survey found, only a few people who seriously buy iPad.

Approximately 9 percent of respondents admitted iPad very interested in buying. This number decreased significantly from the previous time, when still a secret iPad Apple.

Launched by The Next Web, Tuesday (9/2/2010), the findings from research firm named Retrovo proved quite surprising. Retrovo trying to find out how much interest consumers against the latest device from Apple. In the months before the iPad is launched, approximately 19 percent of consumers claim to want to buy the iPad. But the number of interested consumers are reduced to only 9 percent.

Shopping behavior slowly began to migrate to the digital way, which is marked by the increasing number of consumers who shop online. Research conducted through the Web payment service PayPal said, half of consumers in Asia use online services to shop a variety of needs that they need.

“The research we did last year show that online shopping has become quite the attraction means of the shoppers in Asia,” said General Manager of PayPal Southeast Asia and India, Mario Shiliashki.

One of Motorola’s smartphone sales continue to climb, Droid, reportedly will undergo change, especially changes in the operating system.

The News sounded Motorola will increase the class’s Android OS to Android 2.1. This issue is discussed crowded, after Motorola in Facebook status led to a change in their OS in the mobile phone is also known as Milestone.

“Happy because the upgrade to Droid (Android) 2.1 will begin this week,” wrote Nokia on Facebook, which quoted from Engadget, Tuesday (9/2/2010).

Microsoft said it would investigate reports that go into them, the problem in Windows 7 that affect the consumer laptop battery.

“We were doing an investigation on this issue with hardware partners, including problems in its firmware,” wrote Microsoft’s statement, which write from the BBC, Wednesday (3/2/2010).

Warnings are also carried out to consumers to check their laptop battery, if there is a problem. Especially basic computer user input output system (BIOS).