Analyst company Gartner has released its usual report outlining the sales of mobile phones in Q1 2013. Android keeps sitting comfortably at the top running on 3 out of 4 smartphones sold in the period.
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Out of 210 million smartphones sold in the three-month period, Google's mobile OS powers 156 million. That's a huge jump of 17.5 percent points compared to the same period last year.
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BlackBerry ranks third among mobile OS vendors with 6.2 million devices, while Microsoft is breathing down its neck with nearly 6 million phones sales of its new mobile OS.
Unsurprisingly, Samsung keeps being in the lead of smartphone manufacturers and holds 30% of the sales. The Koreans have sold 64.7 million smartphones. That's almost double what second-placed Apple has achieved. The Cupertino giant sold 38.3 million units, taking up 18.2% of the smartphone market.
Third in the charts is LG scoring a 4.8% slice of the smartphone pie. It is followed by the Chinese makers Huawei and ZTE, who take up 4.4% and 3.8%, respectively.
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The overall phone sales for the period totaled 425 million, which is only 0.7% growth year-over-year. Nokia has a strong presence here managing to sell 63 million devices (smartphones and feature phones combined).
In fact, the gap between Nokia and Samsung has widened compared to a year ago, when it was merely 6 million units. Now, it's nearly 37 million units. This make Samsung by far and away, the biggest phone maker in the past three months.
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Source (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2482816) | Via (http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/14/android-nearly-75-of-all-smartphones-shipped-in-q1-samsung-tops-30-mobile-sales-overall-nearly-flat-says-gartner/)
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