| There are many suppliers of mobile (or cell) phones in | | | | phones and is easily the biggest company in Finland. |
| the world. In this brief article we identify some of | | | | The Far East is a hotbed of activity in the mobile |
| them and provide a little background information to | | | | phone production world, with several major |
| help you to learn more about the particular | | | | producers of the most popular technologies. In Japan, |
| organisation. | | | | there is the Panasonic Corporation, based in Osaka |
| It is appropriate that we begin in the Untied States, | | | | and founded as long ago as 1918, which produces a |
| which has the biggest market in mobile phone retail | | | | variety of products. South Korea, which is a leading |
| sales. | | | | centre of mobile phone production is the home of |
| The giant Apple Corporation is well renowned for | | | | the two multinational corporations of Samsung, |
| producing the Apple iphone, one of the best selling | | | | founded in 1938 and based in Samsung Town, Seoul |
| world brands, in addition, of course to the iPad and | | | | and LG, founded in 1947 in Busan and now |
| the Apple Mac computer. Also popular in the US, in | | | | headquartered in Seoul. South Korea also houses the |
| the field of Smart Phones, is Palm Inc, a subsidiary of | | | | smaller, yet still productive Pantec Corporation, |
| Hewlett Packard and maker of the Palm Smartphone, | | | | founded in 1990 and based in Digital Media City, Seoul. |
| the first of which was produced in 1996. Based in San | | | | LG also has its own South Korean subsidiary, Cyon. |
| Diego, Kyocera is a major manufacturer of wireless | | | | China, which is fast developing in numerous areas of |
| cell phones and wireless cameras. Motorola is another | | | | production consequent upon the worldwide recession |
| United States based corporation that produces a | | | | also has several mobile phone and accessory |
| wide range of mobiles from its base in Illinois. | | | | producers, amongst which number, Huawei, based in |
| Moving out of the United States, the Canadian based | | | | Shenzhen and Ningbo Bird, founded in Shenghua. The |
| multinational mega-corporation, Research in Motion | | | | developing home market is surely going to result in |
| makes and retails a wide range of Blackberry hand | | | | an ever increasing production line of Chinese mobile |
| held devices. Founded in 1984 from Waterloo, | | | | phone manufacturers and retailers, whilst neighbouring |
| Ontario, its presence in the worldwide Smart Phone | | | | Taiwan has amongst its own major producers BDTel, |
| market makes it unquestionably a real giant in its field. | | | | HTC, BenQ and Inventec. |
| Away from North America, another major | | | | There are several smaller European producers in |
| international presence in the world of mobile phone | | | | addition to those already cited, including, Finnish |
| technology was established with the merger of the | | | | Benfon, which produces the Twig range of mobile |
| Sony Corporation and Telefonaktiebolaget LM | | | | solutions, InQ, based in London, United Kingdom and |
| Ericsson in 1991, making it one of the world's major | | | | Neonade, a manufacturer of touch screens from its |
| producers of portable phones and mobile technology. | | | | base in Sweden. |
| Based in Scandinavia, like Ericsson (one of the limbs | | | | To conclude this brief article we should also mention |
| of Sony Ericsson) Nokia, the Finnish Multinational can | | | | Vertu, the United Kingdom based manufacturer of |
| also rightly claim its place amongst the major | | | | mobile phones for the luxury market and, in the |
| producers of mobile phones in the world. From its | | | | same field, the Swiss concern, Goldvish, maker of |
| headquarters close to Finland's capital city, Helsinki, | | | | some extremely attractive and somewhat expensive |
| Nokia produces a multimillion dollar supply of mobile | | | | luxury mobile phones! |