Research Strategy Analytics firm had published a report today saying that Samsung has regained the top position as the world's largest smartphone vendor. The company achieved sales of Apple in terms of smartphones in the period January-March of this year.
According to the numbers provided by Strategy Analytics, Samsung sells smartphones worth $23.62 billion, $952 million jump from the previous quarter. By contrast, Apple was not doing anything bad, but not as good as the Koreans and sold $22.95 billion worth of phones - a huge $7.71 billion just less than a quarter ago.
Nokia is third with sales of $3.64 billion, followed closely by LG Electornics and its $2.95 billion in revenues from mobile phones.
IDC reports that Nokia was surpassed by Samsung even at its headquarters in Finland, taking only 33% of the smartphone market, compared to 36% of Samsung, the IDC reports; Apple has the third place with 14%.
In terms of the ratio of operating income, Apple heads this in Q1 2013 with 31%. Samsung is the next with 21.8% and LG is third with 4.1%.
Samsung aims to maintain its place at the top as the Samsung Galaxy S4 is already showing signs of a strong presence in the market. Top dog of a smartphone company managed to sell 10 million units in the first month of availability of market. While Apple is still eagerly expected to publicize what will be his next move on the chessboard of smartphone.
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