FACTBOX: Fourth-quarter 2008 handset sales by vendor

(Reuters) - The world's fifth-largest mobile phone maker Motorola Inc forecast on Tuesday a deeper-than-expected first-quarter loss, and suspended its quarterly dividend, sending its shares down 10 percent.

The mobile phone market shrank in October-December for the first time in more than six years, and is set to fall further this year.

The following is a summary of fourth-quarter sales in millions of units, as reported by the world's top five handset vendors.

Q4 2008 Q3 08 Q4 07 %change

yr-on-yr

Nokia 113.1 117.8 133.5 -15

Samsung Electronics 52.8 51.8 46.3 +14

LG Electronics 25.7 23 23.7 +8

Sony Ericsson 24.2 25.7 30.8 -21

Motorola 19.2 25.4 40.9 -53

Apple sold 4.4 million iPhones in the fourth quarter. RIM sold 6.7 million Blackberrys during its September-November quarter.

The following are underlying operating profit margin percentages from the companies' mobile phone operations:

Q4 2008 Q3 08 Q4 07

Nokia 12.1 18.6 22.8

Samsung 2.0 7.3 11.4

LG Electronics 5.2 11.5 8.8

Sony Ericsson -5 0 13

Motorola -25 -27 -8

(Reporting by Tarmo Virki, editing by Will Waterman)