Smartphone Sales Up by 47 Percent; Android Dominates
Google's operating system continues to dominate market with 72.4 percent share.
Although worldwide phone sales decreased during the third quarter of 2012, sales of smartphones are continuing to rise, with Android spearheading the competitive market. More than 427 million phones were sold in the period, representing a decrease of 3 percent when compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to analyst Gartner. It is, however, a slight increase from the 419 million devices shipped during the second quarter.
Smartphone sales are continuing to flourish, though. An accumulative of 169 million smartphones were sold during the quarter, which is a considerable increase of 47 percent year-on-year. The top three vendors for sales during the quarter are Samsung, Apple and Nokia. The latter, though, had its market share slip by over 20 percent when compared to last year. It fell from 23.9 percent in Q3 2011 to 19.2 percent in this year's third quarter. Meanwhile, Apple and Samsung's market share both enjoyed an increase.

Google's Android mobile operating system continues to lead the smartphone market, with 72.4 percent of all smartphones sold in the quarter shipping with Android installed. This represents an increase from 52.5 percent last year. Apple's iOS follows in a distant second place with a 13.9 percent share.
Microsoft's Windows Phone saw its share increase from 1.5 percent in 2011 to 2.4 percent in the current quarter. Surprisingly, Samsung's Bada mobile operating system has passed Symbian's market share with a 3 percent share, an increase from 2.2 percent last year.
"After two consecutive quarter of decline in mobile phone sales, demand has improved in both mature and emerging markets as sales increased sequentially," Gartner principal research analyst Anshul Gupta said. "In China, sales of mobile phones grew driven by sales of smartphones, while demand of feature phones remained weak. In mature markets, we finally saw replacement sales pick up with the launch of new devices in the quarter."

they arn't free. It comes with a 2 year contract
Now we all see why apple sued em.
Samsung makes all the shit apple needs to make their crappy products.
Now we all see why apple sued em.
WP8 FTW!
they arn't free. It comes with a 2 year contract
Samsung makes all the shit apple needs to make their crappy products.
Those are WP7 numbers. WP8 just released this month. We'll have to see Q4 to see how WP8 does.
Apple without steve ripoff ideas jobs, is dead like a dog with 2 legs.
"The truth is, Samsung is involved in much more than just mobile phones and electronics. They are a massive company in Korea, and they are involved in almost every area of business, including shipbuilding, aviation, heavy machinery, retail, apparel, finance, chemicals, food, electronics and more. They also have a non-profit arm in medicine called Samsung Medical Centre which is one of the largest cancer centers in Asia." -- http://www.androidauthority.com/why-apple-is-very-afraid-of-samsung-26459/
samsung makes all you say, and loads more "by that I mean Laughapple" more products than APPLE could dream of.
Samsung is Diverse as a company willing to commit to new ideas, and intellect., apple is... well.. you answer that for yourself.
go to http://www.samsung.com/us/#latest-home and pull your head outa your ass.
Then go to Apples website. What do they make?
Hmmm let me see... products that SAMSUNG sell's parts to, to even make them a company. (A company aint shit without a product.)
Apple makes what? 4 devices max? (ipad, iphone, iphone, imac) cant name anymore since they are well... un original. And on top of that, the douchebags don't even make their own hardware and sue people over what? get for real.
Apple is lucky samsung doesn't say F*ck off and F*ck your american company, we create all your wealth, components, hardware. To all you saying "samsung" relies on apple is so full of crap it isn't even funny.
Apple does not cure cancer, apple does not do 80% of the things samsung does as a Company.
Cry foul, and eat trash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporations_by_market_capitalization#2012
Based on all the articles about how Samsung lost 7.5% value when they lost a $12 billion dollar settlement to Apple, that would put Samsung's value around $90 billion, compared to Apples $572 billion. I know it may seem weird that Apple can have that value, but they do.
However, having the means doesn't mean jack unless Samsung wanted to sell.
Because they could not afford it !
Just because you did not outright pay for them does not make them free!
It sis simply calculated into your monthly fee.
Do you really think ANYONE is giving you something for free?
Don't confuse an overheated stock market with actual value!
Apple does not have nearly the assest Sansung has, not nearly the market volum, and most importantly...
has NO manufacturing.
Samsung just raised their chip prices to Apple by a cool 20% and there is absolutely nothing Apple can do but write a check. Now THAT is true power! Apple is totally dependent on Asian companies and that lawsuit they 'won' (we do not have a final word on that) is going to cost them dearly.
Apple has two things
1º Overinflated stock prices
2º Insane profits due to inflated prices on products that sell millions. 30-50% benefit on each sale depending on the product.
Samsung has far less benefits overall, but it is a far bigger company with a a lot of divisions and departments. Apple completely depends on iPhone and iPad success to maintain their momentum, while Samsung could suffer setbacks on some of their products line like TVs or cameras and still keep trucking.
Apple is a giant with feet of clay.
So the idea of buying Samsung (Electronics, not the group), is quite absurd.