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Galaki on 29 October 2011

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Samsung blows past Apple to take No. 1 smartphone spot in Q3

By: Zach Epstein | Oct 28th, 2011 at 10:01AM
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Following Samsung’s third-quarter earnings report on Friday morning, the South Korea-based electronics giant is now confirmed to have passed Apple to become the top smartphone vendor in the world by volume. Reports from last week suggested Samsung had bested Apple’s stalled smartphone shipments during the September quarter to take the No. 1 spot, and now Samsung has confirmed that it surpassed the 17.1 million iPhones Apple shipped by a wide margin. Read on for more. 

Headed by the company’s popular Galaxy S II line of handsets, Samsung shipped 27.9 million smartphones last quarter, nearly 10 million units better than Apple’s performance by volume. Apple spent just one quarter as the world’s top smartphone vendor when it shipped 20.34 million iPhone handsets in the second quarter of 2011. Samsung first began selling smartphones just last year and it has already become the global leader.

According to market research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s stellar quarter drove huge growth in worldwide smartphone sales. “Global smartphone shipments grew 44 percent annually to reach a record 117 million units in Q3 2011,” Strategy Analytics Senior Analyst Alex Spektor said in a press release. “Samsung shipped 28 million smartphones and overtook Apple to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume with 24 percent market share. Samsung’s rise has been driven by a blend of elegant hardware designs, popular Android services, memorable sub-brands and extensive global distribution. Samsung has demonstrated that it is possible, at least in the short term, to differentiate and grow by using the Android ecosystem.”

Samsung reported an operating profit of 4.25 trillion won in the third quarter as smartphone shipments quadrupled the same period last year.


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miz1q2w3e on 29 October 2011
RolStoppable said:
Good, this should put an end to the claims that Apple will take over.

lol this

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Acevil on 29 October 2011
RolStoppable said:
Good, this should put an end to the claims that Apple will take over.


Hey I rather Nintendo eventually port (I mean "make") games over to samsung, than a company I rather never support! :P



 

Alby_da_Wolf on 29 October 2011

Good for Samsung, but I hate its phones so much I won't ever buy one (having some times used my dad's ones, he liked them, was more than enough for me, and far too often I have to help my mom to set the one she inherited, so no, thanks). Neither I'll ever buy an iPhone (although just for its excessive price, if someone gave me one for free, or I could find one new within 150€ without having to accept bad telco contracts, I'd get it without any problem).
When I'll finally buy an Android smartphone, it will be the best non-Samsung one within my price threshold (that's hundreds Euros below iPhone's price). And no, it won't become my main gaming machine, it won't kill my PC, neither it will kill the possibility I buy a home or portable console in the future. The main key here are controls, I didn't buy a PSP because I hated its controls except for a very limited range of games, and a phone has even more limited controls, that are best for a phone, and can be good enough, but almost always suboptimal, just for a limited range of games. The second key is battery life, games eat it, and I want my phone to always have enough charge, should I really need it for important and urgent matters.



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Marks on 29 October 2011

Sweet! I just bought a Galaxy S2 in the summer



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Munkeh111 on 30 October 2011

Gaming is nowhere near as strong on Android as iPhone. Even with the greater shipments of Android, iOS is the larger gaming platform, so I wouldn't quite agree with the thread title, even if we assume smartphone gaming is killing proper gaming...



sapphi_snake on 30 October 2011

Not surprisded. The Galaxy S2 is an awsome phone and is actually worth the price versus Apple's overpriced nonsense.



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sapphi_snake on 30 October 2011
Munkeh111 said:
Gaming is nowhere near as strong on Android as iPhone. Even with the greater shipments of Android, iOS is the larger gaming platform, so I wouldn't quite agree with the thread title, even if we assume smartphone gaming is killing proper gaming...

This will change pretty soon though, as developers will have no reason to not focus on Android when it will surpass iOS phones.



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NotStan on 30 October 2011

I don't understand how one of the top smartphones can be "better" than the other, when they have near enough the same features, do they do them better at cheaper price or something?

Other than maybe the price and personal comfort, I don't really consider anything else to be a priority when choosing a mobile phone.



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sapphi_snake on 30 October 2011
NotStan said:
I don't understand how one of the top smartphones can be "better" than the other, when they have near enough the same features, do they do them better at cheaper price or something?

Other than maybe the price and personal comfort, I don't really consider anything else to be a priority when choosing a mobile phone.

'Better' as in 'better specs'. Also, a much better price-quality ratio. Apple products are generally lower quality compared to their competitors (and less features) but much more expensive.



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