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dragonmagician said:

kumagawa said:

And IDC disagree

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23753512

 

Top Five Smartphone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, 2012 Q3 (Units in Millions)

Vendor	3Q12 Unit Shipments	3Q12 Market Share	3Q11 Unit Shipments	3Q11 Market Share	Year-over-year Change
Samsung	56.3	31.3%	28.1	22.7%	100.4%
Apple	26.9	15.0%	17.1	13.8%	57.3%
Research In Motion	7.7	4.3%	11.8	9.6%	-34.7%
ZTE	7.5	4.2%	4.1	3.3%	82.9%
HTC	7.3	4.0%	12.7	10.3%	-42.5%
Others	74.0	41.2%	49.9	40.3%	48.3%
Total	179.7	100.0%	123.7	100.0%	45.3%

 

 

That's the problem with anaylist firms they all give so very different results.

It's not that IDC was wrong, it's just that when they made that report, Sony didn't release their Q3 numbers yet (I think it came out November 1, and the report was done in October), so Sony's numbers would be in the Others category. But the 8.8 million shipment number came straight from Sony's financial report, so if you are going with the IDC numbers, Sony would be in third place. Of course, you can still see there are some differences in the numbers from the two reports, ie;  Samsung's 56.3 mil shipment in IDC vs 55.5 mil in OPs article, and I don't follow Samsung enough to know where these numbers came from.

Samsung don't give us units numbers but sales numbers (revenue)... so the IDC and others companies estimate the units numbers with the avg. sales of each model to get the units... it's close but not the real units numbers.

The only official number in IDC report is Apple and Nokia numbers... 26.9 million iPhones is 26.9 million units shipped.

And of course... IDC don't have the Sony data when created the report... so estimated too but I think they will update the report with the Sony numbers now.