From Sci-Tech Today
Samsung Beats Nokia and Apple as Top Phone Maker
By Adam Dickter
| April 29, 2012 8:48AM |
The mobile phone market is abuzz with news that Samsung has become the global leader of smartphones as well as handsets, based on first quarter information polled from the vendors themselves. Q1 results in the handset category indicate that Samsung has taken the top spot away from Nokia after a 14-year reign. And, in the smartphone market, Samsung surpassed Apple, beating iPhone's 24 percent with an impressive 31 percent market share.
With winning devices such as the Galaxy Note, Google Nexus, Droid Charge, and Galaxy S II, Samsung smartphone shipments rose by a whopping 253 percent to 44.5 million, while handset unit shipments totaled 93 million. That's a 36 percent spike from the first quarter of last year. The Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note have been especially popular, contributing significantly to Samsung's growth in the smartphone category.
In comparison, Nokia's handset market share fell annually from 30.4 percent to 22.5 percent, while its smartphone market share plummeted from 23.5 percent to 8.25 percent. The results leave Apple and Samsung together controlling more than half the smartphone market.
Overall, the handset market grew by a modest 3 percent while the smartphone market grew by a more substantial 41 percent, compared with the first quarter of 2011.
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