In Taiwan, which has the highest cell phone penetration in the world (106 phones per 100 people), the market is vastly different from described in the article. LG is doing extremely well, leading the touch panels, Samsung, a number of Japanese companies, HTC (a local company) and recently Apple are the other major players.
AFIK, the story in Hong Kong is relatively similar and Korea has been even harder for Nokia.
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Europe is not the "rest of the world".
In Taiwan, which has the highest cell phone penetration in the world (106 phones per 100 people), the market is vastly different from described in the article. LG is doing extremely well, leading the touch panels, Samsung, a number of Japanese companies, HTC (a local company) and recently Apple are the other major players.
AFIK, the story in Hong Kong is relatively similar and Korea has been even harder for Nokia.