Research firm Strategy Analytics posted a report today stating that Samsung has regained the first position as the world's largest smartphone seller. The company managed to outsell Apple in terms of smartphones in the January-March period of this year.
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According to the numbers provided by Strategy Analytics, Samsung sold smartphones worth $23.62 billion, a $952 million jump from the previous quarter. In contrast, Apple wasn't doing too bad either, but not as good as the Koreans and sold $22.95 billion worth of phones - a whopping $7.71 billion less than just one quarter ago.
Nokia takes the third spot with sales of $3.64 billion, followed closely by LG Electornics and its $2.95 billion in revenue from mobile phones.
IDC reports that Nokia was outpaced by Samsung even on its home turf in Finland, taking just 33% of the smartphone market, compared to Samsung's 36%, the IDC reports; Apple takes the third spot with 14%.
As far as operating income ratio is concerned, Apple tops this one in Q1 2013 with 31%. Samsung is next with 21.8% and LG is third with 4.1%.
Samsung is expected to keep its place at the top as the Samsung Galaxy S4 (http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9500_galaxy_s4-5125.php) is already showing signs of strong market presence. The company's top dog of a smartphone managed to sell in 10 million units (http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_ships_10_million_galaxy_s4_units_adds_new_colors_-news-6079.php) in the first month of its market availability. Whereas Apple is still anxiously waited to unveil what its next move on the smartphone chessboard is going to be.
Source (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/yonhap-news-agency/130527/samsung-worlds-no-1-smartphone-seller-q1-data#1), Source (2) (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitoday.fi%2Fmobiili%2F2013%2F05%2F28%2Fnokian-suomi-linnake-murtuu--samsung-meni-ohi%2F20137468%2F66) | Via (http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/28/idc-samsung-sold-more-phones-than-nokia-in-finland/)
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