As of Q3 2000, Siemens had an 8.6% mobile handset market share, putting it behind Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia.

[1] For the calendar year 2003, Siemens was again fourth behind Samsung, Motorola and Nokia, with a figure of 8.5%.

[3] Siemens Mobile was making large losses and plummeting sales at this time.

Their Xelibri range of phones, which was the company's answer to the fashionable handset trend at the time, became a costly failure.

BenQ subsequently released mobile phones under the BenQ-Siemens brand, from its German unit.