Highly doubt this not only has Samsung more models they are also available by a lot more carries in short I think its BS.

Emerging markets is where the growth is. Not so sure about money.

For one, emerging markets are more price sensitive, so a unit sold in India is liable to have tiny margins compared to one sold in the US.

Second, most of the third party developers that make a platform so attractive to customers and help lock those customers in tend to live in the West. Of course developers exist everywhere, but it's good to have silicon valley on your side.

Third, depending on who you are in mobile, you may not be able to make anything in these emerging markets anyway. I'm mostly talking about Google here, which has almost no presence in China no matter how many Android devices sell there, because all those Android devices strip out Google's services and replace them with Baidu and other home grown alternatives. 

It's not bullshit.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/apple-overtakes-samsung-by-taking-34-u-s-mobile-phone-market.html

Anyway I read in some place that one of the biggest carrier in US have 70% of te smartphone sales coming from iPhone.

It's even more amazing when you consider that Apple is competing with only 1 phone.

Anyway Samsung still sells more cell phones in the US overall since all carries have Samsung models.  Also like someone already said its only a temporary victory until the next Galaxy model comes out.

The next iPhone (iPhone 5S?) will come at the same time than the next Galaxy... the Apple alrady said they plan to change the release date of the iPhone to June instead September.

iPhone seasonality is well-known, but the seasonal surge in the US, and the baseline it falls down to, get higher every year.

@Chris Hu

AT&T and Verizon report that the iPhone represented 84% and 63% of their smartphone sales in the past quarter, respectively. Those are the two biggest carriers in the US, representing 2/3s of the cellular market, and those numbers alone combine to give the iPhone almost 50% of US smartphone marketshare in the last quarter, without counting iPhones sold at Sprint and smaller regional carriers.

Apple has 3 iphones in the market right now. They don't make just one phone.

Sammy has the Galaxy 3, 2, Note, and like 2 or 3 more low end phones. So, maybe they have 6 total. But Samsung doesn't have the same brand loyalty Apple does so, in reality its a bigger feat for Sammy.

... and so has Samsung's. Kinda why they took 1st place with the Galaxy S2.

Samsung never took the 1st place with just one model... all the models together took the 1st place... even the Galaxy S3 never sold like iPhone.

PS. There are a lot of more Galaxy models than you listed.