Samsung Beats Apple to Become Largest Smartphone Seller

Announced that South Korea's Samsung Electronics, said that sales of smart phones sales exceeded Apple in the third quarter of 2011 the current, and reached to 20 million phones of this type.

The news agency quoted "Yonhap," South Korea's head of mobile phones in the "Samsung", "Shen Gong" Kyun, saying that sales of smart phones for the company in the period from July to September has exceeded sales of "Apple" in the same period. And as "Shane" that the company has shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the said quarter of this year.

The American company "Apple"'s largest maker of smart phones in the world have excelled in the previous quarter, followed by Samsung. It is scheduled to announce the results of the Korean company's profits in the third quarter of this year in the next week. The agency said that the Korean analysts expect to be sold "Samsung" between $ 23,000,028 million smartphones in the past three months, thanks to the launch smartphone "Galaxy S 2" in last spring.

Samsung Electronics Co. overtakes the American tech giant, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in the race of smartphones sales to become the world’s top smartphone vendor.

Samsung which is the world’s prime tech firm in terms of revenue sold almost 27.8 million smartphone in the quarter, while Apple delivered 17.1 million. The Finnish tycoon, Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK) is firm at third place with 16.8 million deliveries.

Samsung’s piece of the smartphone market pie increased to 23.8% in the 3Q from 9.3% in the similar phase last year, while Apple’s market share dropped to 14.6% from 17.4%, a research company commented in a statement. Nokia suffered a drop in its share to 14.4% from 32.7%.


Headquartered at Suwon, South Korea, Samsung has gained top position after turning to Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Android software which bolstered its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers sales.

Samsung’s dawn has been aided by a combination of stylish hardware designs, admired Android services, outstanding sub-brands and huge global distribution. Samsung has showed that it was probable, almost in the short period, to distinguish and breed by using the Android ecosystem. Strategy Analytics commented.

Enjoying just one quarter on top place, Apple stumbled behind Samsung to second spot and gained almost 15% share. Apple’s worldwide smartphone growth rate decelerated to only 21% yearly in Q3 2011, its minimum level for two years, Neil Mawston articulated, Director at Strategy Analytics.

We consider Apple’s rise all way through the third quarter was pressured by consumers and operators in the anticipation for releasing the latest iPhone 4S in the fourth quarter, unstable economic conditions in different major countries, and stronger opposition from Samsung’s renowned Galaxy S2 model, he added.


Managed company, "Samsung" Korean to overtake U.S. rival the famous "Apple" to be the largest global supplier of smart phones in the third quarter of this year amid mounting legal struggle between the two companies because of patents.

According to research firm "strategic Analitkz" the largest technology company in the world in terms of revenue has sold 27.8 million units of the smart phone during that period, compared with 17.1 million units to rival the "Apple".

Has achieved "Samsung" a big leap up market share to 23.8% during the third quarter from 9.3% a year ago, former, while the share fell "Apple" to 14.6% from 17.4%, while the "Nokia", which came in third place, the deterioration of the developed market is extremely smart phones, where its share fell to 14.4% from 32.7%.

The research firm said sales of the smart phone around the world, increased by 44% to reach a record 117 million units.