Galaxy S III Nabs 'Best Selling Smartphone' From iPhone 4S
Galaxy SIII named best-selling smartphone in the world.
Apple has been fighting tooth and nail to take out Samsung's Galaxy line of products, so no doubt the Cupertino-based company won't be too pleased to hear that the Galaxy S III has taken the most popular smartphone title from the iPhone 4S. According to Research firm Strategy Analytics, the Galaxy S III was the most popular smartphone in Q3 2012.
Strategy Analytics reports that Samsung's Galaxy S III shipped 18 million units worldwide during the third quarter and accounted for 10.7 percent of all smartphones shipped globally. Apple's iPhone 4S shipped 16.2 million units worldwide. This is compared to 19.4 million units in the previous quarter. Samsung shipped just 5.4 million Galaxy S III devices in the second quarter. Apple's iPhone 5, which just became available towards the end of the quarter, shipped 6 million units.
While 18 million Galaxy S IIIs is no small feat, it's important to remember that the Galaxy S III launched during the summer and is more popular than ever. The iPhone 4S, on the other hand, was launched in October of 2011 and so is considerably older. Additionally, the iPhone 4S saw its shipments impacted by the launch of the iPhone 5 in September.

it'll probably hurt him in the inside if he posts this
it'll probably hurt him in the inside if he posts this
I don't really consider the project butter, offline voice dictation and Expandable notifications to be minor
A lot of people use their smartphone as their primary camera on a day-to-day basis so they value having a leading edge smartphone camera, ie. if I'm paying premium money for a flagship device I expect it to have as good or better camera than the others in its class. Comparing a 920 (just out) and iPhone 5 (end of September) to something that was release in June is unfair.
The 920 is being released close to 6 months after the S3, it should have a better camera.
But the consumer reality is now all 3 products are released so a new purchaser who values camera quality highly may not choose an S3, but its done amazingly well and will continue to sell tens of million until the S4 is released.
What are you basing that claim on? While its not the best phone camera on the market is by no means horrendous. We use our GSIII camera all the time and it takes great pictures. I used it to take some pictures of my home theater setup in really low lighting to show some problems with my TV. The pictures were plenty good enough to show all the detail needed to see the problem with my TV picture.
In fact I have not found any situations where the pictures it takes are unacceptable.
The GSIII camera blows away my HTC Evo and Evo design cameras.
They probably don't care because in the end of the day most people just care about the inner specs, screen size, android version rather than the camera and besides it's not much a threat since it's just running ol' dead Symbian
I agree. They are good in broad daylight and great lighting conditions. Low light and they are useless. Look at comparison pix of the S3 or HTC phones or Gnex to the IPhone5 and 920 photos. My brother loves his S3, but is soo pissed at the camera. He came from an IPhone 4. To those coming from crap, ya it's not bad. My Gnex camera is pretty good in perfect conditions. It's similar to the S3 camera..terrible in Low light..so all bars, clubs, parties...and anything portraying motion, kids, animals, cars. Horrendous was a strong word, but the 920 shows they can be far better. For hardware costing $6-800..where's the beef?
funny because i thought it was the best camera on any phone ive ever seen. it was even better than the newer iphone 5 [im speaking of video quality]
i hate people like this. you realize that the new cameras on phones are close to rivaling budget cameras right? it's an excellent feature, and is the difference between a good smartphone and an excellent smartphone.
I configure iPhones at work. They suck. Takes to long to get to the settings and the back buttons are all over the place. iOS is garbage.
"Apple's iPhone 4S shipped 16.2 million units worldwide."
Apple quarterly report says they sold 26 million phones. Is that the fake news again? Where one company reports "shipped" means manufactured and loaded on tracks, and other company reports "sold" meaning customer paid for it.
What this stands for is - Apple produced enough 4S in Q2 to meet demand in Q3, then stopped shipping 4S phone in mid quarter and was mass producing 5 to meet the demand.
Common sense?
-IvanTO
It is 3rd quarter sales figures, nothing more. The press is trying to spin it into a story with the blurb about the GS3 outselling the iPhone 4S. Unfortunately for Apple, the iPhone 5's release fell in the last two weeks of the quarter. (The iPhone 4S' release was at the beginning of 4th quarter). So Apple's phone sales were mostly split between two models.
Galaxy S3: 18 million
iPhone 4S: 16.2 million
iPhone 5: 6 million
The remaining iPhone models brought Apple's total up to 26.9 million for the third quarter. However, there were 136 million Android smartphones shipped in the same quarter. So Android smartphones are now outselling the iPhone 5:1 (vs 4:1 in 2011).
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/02/idc-android-market-share-reached-75-worldwide-in-q3-2012/
So yes the GS3 outselling the 4S is newsworthy, but it is not as big a deal as the press is making it out to be. The bigger news is that Android is growing a lot faster than the iPhone (despite faring worse relative to Android, the iPhone still managed to pick up market share at the expense of Symbian and Blackberry).
I should add that Samsung's total for the quarter was 56+ million smartphones.
http://www.prepaymania.co.uk/mobilephone/samsung-galaxy-s3-i9300-android-sim-free-unlocked-mobile-phone-white.html