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Samsung is overtaking Apple in smartphone sales
KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung might have surpassed Apple and Nokia in smartphone sales in the second quarter.
Samsung has made of one of the most popular phones of the year in the Galaxy S II. Neil Mawston, an analyst at Strategy Analytics told Bloomberg that Samsung might have sold more smartphones than Apple and Nokia during April, May and June.
Mawston said, "Samsung is estimated to have sold between 18 million and 21 million smartphones globally in the April-June quarter, compared with 16.7 million for Nokia and 20.3 million iPhones"
The possible total of 21 million isn't solely Galaxy S II models, in fact we're still wondering if Samsung knows how many of those it has sold after much confusion over its pre-orders and sales figures. Samsung has yet to launch the Galaxy S II smartphone in the US.
It's unlikely that Samsung has sold more smartphones than Apple, however, and we're still waiting for Apple to launch the next Iphone, which should shake things up a bit.
Mawston added, "Samsung's Android portfolio is selling strongly in most regions. Samsung stands a reasonable chance of capturing the top spot on a quarterly basis if it can continue expanding its Android portfolio across high-growth markets like China and Brazil. Samsung and Apple will be at similar levels in smartphones by the end of the year."
If you include basic phones into the equation Mawston reakons that Samsung will have 20 per cent market share compared to Nokia's 26 per cent. If this prediction comes to fruition then it would be the smallest gap in phone shipments between the two firms to date.
Samsung also makes budget smartphones such as the Galaxy Europa and Galaxy Mini. These phones bring Google's Android operating system to consumers who can't afford a pricey contract tariff or whopping SIM free payment.
In terms of market share, we recently learned that Apple has overtaken Nokia. Figures from IDC showed Apple with 21 per cent market share compared to Nokia's 20 per cent. According to IDC, Samsung had 14 per cent. µ
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Nope, nobody said that.
That was an argument with yourself.
The iPhone was actually a copy of the LG KE850 (but don't tell anyone).
I've got a Sammy Galaxy myself because I really hate having to use iTunes - it sucks!
It does seem that some do like to choose what they want.
interesting, first Apple used Samsung to build iPhone/iPad chips, then Samsung takes chunk of smart phone market from iPhone.. Copy/understand/improve/take-over customers design strategy works for guys with Fabs, I think.
wait for the excuses from apologists claiming "you can't compare a year-old phone to Samsung's latest" and "you can't compare sales with other companies that sell more than one phone to Apple that sells a single model", etc.
the current iPhone, a year-old or not, is the CURRENT model and hence in competition with any other models CURRENTLY available. if it's available, it's in competition with other currently available products in the same market.
so if Apple want to only make one model a year, that's their choice and hence their responsibility for the results. it is not an excuse or defense against any undesirable effects from such choices made at Apple.
you don't see Apple at conferences saying "we sold loads of iPhones and are doing great, but we shouldn't compare ourselves to other mobile device companies because they make more models.....".
no, Apple will quite happily claim all sorts of victories of how much they've sold without any thought to make any disclaimers about how they only sell one model annually.
so they can take their truth consistently both ways and not expect any excuse about "you can't compare today's other phones with Apple's last-year model...".
if Apple have another device, let's see it, until then, the current iPhone4 is the only one available to compare to because Apple are late with their iPhone5. though i'm sure they have an excuse for that too.
Looks like Samsung will be the first company to ship a million smartphones a day.