It looks as though there has been some serious worldwide success for LG. The manufacture has announced they have sold over 20 million QWERTY handsets since 2005.

Thanks to the success of its messaging phones, LG now has a 20.8% mobile market share in North America. This is a significant increase from the 15.8% share reported in 2007. During 2005, there were 350,000 LG QWERTY phones sold worldwide. In 2006, the number almost doubled to reach 600,000 units. The following year (2007), brought sales of 2.7 million units, while in 2008 LG shipped 12.7 million QWERTY-equipped handsets.

Verizon’s VX9800 was the first one released by LG in North America where the company has seen much of its sales success. The introduction of messaging phone came in 2005. Of the models out in the marketplace more recently, the enV and Rumor are very popular in the US. The enV series reached 8 million units sold, the Rumor series 6 million, and the Voyager series topped 3.5 million units. Nice work LG.

[via UnWiredView]