Nokia, Samsung and LG led a global handset market that boasted positive growth for the first quarter since Q3 2008. LG and Samsung shipped record numbers, and Nokia, Motorola and even Sony Ericsson again had their chins up.
– Global handset shipments reached 324 million units in the fourth
quarter of 2009, showing a 10 percent increase over shipments from a
year ago and the first quarter of positive growth since the third
quarter of 2008, according to a Jan. 29 report from Strategy Analytics.

The positive growth…