Samsung has made a great fortune in the GLobal Mobile Market. A Report by Gartner suggests that it has become the largest seller of smartphones in the world.
Its sales have reached 86.6 million units, a 25.9 per cent increase from last year, as it took back the world’s number one smartphone position from Apple, selling 38 million units worldwide, research firm Gartner announced today.
he Korean major dethroned Nokia which could sell only 83.2 million units in the first quarter, a 22.7 per cent drop.
“Smartphone sales are becoming of paramount importance at a worldwide level. For example, smartphone volumes contributed to around 43.9 percent of the overall sales for Samsung as opposed to 16 percent for Nokia,” Gartner principal research analyst Anshul Gupta said.
In addition, Samsung‘s Android-based smartphone sales in the first quarter represented more than 40 per cent of Android-based smartphone sales worldwide, as no other vendor achieved more than a 10 per cent share of the market, he said.
Sales of smartphones continued to drive mobile device market growth, reaching 144.4 million units in the first quarter, up 44.7 per cent year-over-year.
This quarter also saw the top two smartphone vendors, Apple and Samsung, raising their combined share to 49.3 percent, up from 29.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, and widening their lead over Nokia, which saw its smartphone market share drop to 9.2 per cent. Meanwhile, Nokia‘s overal handset sales reached 83.2 million units in the first quarter, a 22.7 per cent drop from the first quarter of 2011, an official release said.