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Local Mobile Market Makes Glob essays Thailand has become one of Nokia's top 10 markets for mobile phones and the company expects the market to keep growing. "The Asia-Pacific region is |an important region for Nokia |with three of our 10 largest markets in the world located in this region |- China, the Philippines and Thailand. We believe the region |will continue to see healthy growth over the next few years," Robert Anderson, senior vice president of Nokia Mobile Phone Asia-Pacific, said at the company's Asia-Pacific launch of its new mobile phones here on Tuesday. Nokia's "Style My Mobile World" event in Melbourne was held simultaneously with one at CeBIT 2002, the global technology fair in Hanover, Germany. Nokia holds the largest share |of the Thai mobile phone mar-|ket with about 40 per cent, follow-|ed by Motorola, Siemens and Ericsson. Telecom analysts have fore-|cast that the Thai mobile-phone |market will reach eight million |units this year, up from six million last year. Some of the six Nokia mobile phones unveiled on Tuesday were tailored to the Asia-Pacific market, including the Nokia 3510, which supports general packet radio services and multimedia messaging as well as polyphonic sounds. The model will go on sale in Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific in the second quarter of this year, Nokia said. The 3315 model was designed exclusively for the Asia-Pacific |market. It will have a picture |editor, a Chinese phonebook and Thai input. Nokia Mobile Phones (Thailand) launched the first Thai-enabled Nokia 3350 model in Thailand on January 27. Nokia also unveiled its colour-screen 7210 model - which supports multimedia messaging service (MMS) and can be used on GSM networks in Europe, Asia and the United States - at Tuesday's event. Nokia will begin shipping the 7210 early in the third quarter. ...