Mobiles and smartphones: Samsung crushes everything in the first quarter

Despite continued sales of smartphones soaring, the global mobile market struggling to advance in the first quarter, notes Gartner. 425.8 million units have been sold an annual increase of just 0.7 per cent from 2012.

Thanks to its massive portfolio of products, Samsung has consolidated its overall domination with a market share that earns 2.5 points to 23.6% (more than 100 million units sold). South Korean widens the gap with Nokia, whose share lost almost 5 points to 14.8%.

A year ago, Samsung sold "only" 6 million mobile more than Nokia. Today, the gap is 37 million units!

With 38 million of past terminals, Apple clings firmly to its third place in the world with a share going from 7.8 to 9%. LG is at the foot of the podium but it is very far from the trio of head with 15.6 million of past mobile.

 

On the side of smartphones, the dominance of Samsung is even stronger with 31% market share. The giant sold 64.7 210 millions of smartphones sold in the period!

Windows almost 3rd Phone

Apple manages the tour de force to maintain second (18.2% vs. 22.5% a year ago) despite the absence of novelty. LG seems to confirm his return in smartphones with a share that increased from 3.4 to 4.8% for 10 million units sold. The manufacturer is nevertheless become Huawei and ZTE.

 

In terms of OS, Android is obviously very much front with 74.4% versus 57% a year ago. Three quarters of the smartphones sold on the planet (156 million) are therefore driven by the Green robot.

Behind iOS (18%), other actors share crumbs. BlackBerry continues its fall despite the launch of the Z10 (3% vs. 6.8% with only 6.2 million past units).

As expected, Windows Phone is almost about to exceed the Canadian with 6 million terminals passed (including more than 5 million Nokia Lumia) and a share that increased from 1.9% to 2.9% in one year.