Samsung Skip Apple in Smartphone Shipments

Apple shipments expected to decline as consumers wait for the launch of the iPhone 4S.

Sunday, October 30, 2011, 12:25 PM

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VIVAnews - South Korean mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung, Apple passed the largest shipments of smartphone products, in the period July to September. The third rank under the Samsung and Apple are Nokia.


As quoted from the pages of the BBC, research conducted by Strategy Analytics show, Samsung has shipped 27.8 million smartphones smartphone in as many as three-month period. Apple only 17.1 million, seadngkan Nokia 16.8 million.

Apple shipments expected to decline as consumers are also awaiting the launch of Apple's latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S.

As for the general mobile phone shipments, Nokia still leads with 27.3 percent market share. Following behind Nokia are two South Korean mobile phone manufacturer, Samsung and LG with 22.6 percent 5.4 percent. Ranked fourth is occupied Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, ZTE to 4.7 percent.

Apple's position in shipments of mobile phones in general simply is ranked fifth, with 4.4 percent. This is natural, given Apple iPhone mobile phone is only producing, which makes the smartphone category.

This research report comes after Samsung showed a decrease in third quarter profits this year, which is down 23 percent. Although the production of advanced mobile phones, but Samsung's performance in a memory chip sales arm.

While sales of Samsung phones has doubled, to around U.S. $ 2.3 trillion, thanks to surging sales of mobile phones Galaxy series.

Until the third quarter of this year, Samsung has sold a total of 117 million smartphones. This figure is up 44 percent from the same period last year.

As for Nokia, its market share down 33 percent from the third quarter last year. However, the transition from the Nokia Symbian operating system to Windows is expected to help the sales of Nokia.

"The transition from Symbian to Microsoft's very challenging," said Tom Kang of Strategy Analytics. "The launch of Microsoft Lumia also help Nokia to increase revenue," he continued. (sj)

source : • VIVAnews ( http://teknologi.vivanews.com/news/read/259953-samsung-lewati-apple-di-pengapalan-smartphone 

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