Samsung led the way with a 29% share of the global smartphone market in Q4

0. phoneArena posted on 07 Feb 2013, 21:16

Korean tech titan Samsung led the way with a 29% share of the worldwide smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the latest stats from researcher Canalys; of the 216.5 million smartphone units shipped in the three month period, 69% of them were Android models and if you throw in featurephones, Android still controlled 34% of the entire handset world in Q4...

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1. Jonathan41 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 21:38 21 1

Samsung is doing it big.

7. cas_shekhar posted on 07 Feb 2013, 22:18 15 1

sammy is the father of all phone manufacturer now.

2. MrJerry posted on 07 Feb 2013, 21:40 0 0

Which one could be easier to be placed in third spot?
Taking some away from Samsung(29%) or Apple(22.1%) or Others(34.5%) ?

My answer is the last one, Others(34.5%) for quite a while

3. ca.nal.yst posted on 07 Feb 2013, 21:42 1 11

My Q4 2013 prediction
Samsung 1 - 21% market share
Motorola 2 - 19% market share
Huawei 3 - 17% market share
Sony 4 - 16% market share
Lenovo 5 - 12% market share

.... 12 Apple - 1% market share
.... 14 BB - 0.5% market share
.... 18 Nokia - 0.1% market share

4. MrJerry posted on 07 Feb 2013, 22:04 1 4

Not so fast dude

6. sonyisdead (banned) posted on 07 Feb 2013, 22:10 3 1

Motorola 19%, Sony 16%, Huawei 17%, Lenovo 12%, Apple 1%?

LOL thanks for the laughs, you are a great comedian

9. ca.nal.yst posted on 07 Feb 2013, 22:45 3 2

Steve Wozniak already said it... Apple is GOING DOWN!!!
Do you need another hint?
Perhaps a lighting strike on your head?

17. rex1213 posted on 08 Feb 2013, 17:23 0 0

That's very much unrealistic dude. You can't expect Apple to go down THAT fast.

In fact, it would take QUITE A LOT of CEO mistakes (Stephen Elop at Nokia, I'm looking at you) for a company as successful as Apple to go down drastically.

I'm not saying that there are no indications of trouble inside Apple but that's just way too pessimistic.

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10. pyradark posted on 08 Feb 2013, 00:06 0 3

My Q4 2013 prediction(REVISED)
Samsung 1 - 21% market share
Apple - 18% market share
Sony - 13% market share
Nokia - 9% market share
LG - 8% market share
OTHERS - 31% market share

5. Johnnokia posted on 07 Feb 2013, 22:07 0 2

Microsoft, Blackberry and Nokia ???
Are you comparing OS or Phone Manufacturer ??
Nokia is producing Symbian and Windows Phone.

This article does not make sense at all.

8. ca.nal.yst posted on 07 Feb 2013, 22:44 12 3

It make sense... Nokia is a looser.
what sense do you want?

Microsoft = WP
Nokia = Symbian

12. darac posted on 08 Feb 2013, 02:46 0 0

Exactly.
Nokia refers to Symbian here.

Out of WP total, Nokia sold 4 million (given their in house report of 7 million smartphones sold ), while HTC did 1

11. darac posted on 08 Feb 2013, 02:38 4 0

Well well.. Microsoft 5.1 million phones.
Wow.
That's just lower than even I have expected.
Thats THIRTY TIMES LESS than Google did!
Lmao.

All those Lumia 920 sold out stories become much clearer now - it's a low volume trick done by Nokia.
The demand was obviously still high, but with unlimited supply I don't think it would sell more than 4 million units.

14. Edmund posted on 08 Feb 2013, 03:16 0 1

you mean like the nexus 4 (lg only manufactured around 400,000 units in total) or the blackberry z10 ???

15. darac posted on 08 Feb 2013, 04:30 1 0

Similar story, yep!

13. Edmund posted on 08 Feb 2013, 03:13 0 1

lol.. these figures are dodgy at best

16. darac posted on 08 Feb 2013, 04:34 3 0

Sure, keep telling that to yourself, Microsoft lover.

There's NOTHING dodgy about them.
Nokia reported 7 million smartphone sales in their q4 report.
3M Symbians and 4M Lumias

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