Tokyo: Market research firm IDC has declared that the Samsung Electronics Company has the biggest share inĀ the smart phone market, pushing Apple Inc. into second place, as its phone shipments more than tripled.
The overall smartphone market grew 42.6 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of this year, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report released Thursday.
Only Nokia and RIM saw a decline in market share. The overall smartphone market grew 42.6% year over year, from 82.8 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2010 to 118 million in the third quarter of this year, IDC said. That growth was less than the 49% growth IDC had forecast and well behind the 67% growth in overall smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2011.
According to report, the market share of smart phone for Samsung Electronics is roaring from 8.8% last quarter to 20% and takes the first place in Q3. Then No.2 is Apple, decreasing form 17% to 15% in Q3.
“Samsung’s ascendancy to the leadership position is the direct result of its broad and deep product portfolio,” said IDC Mobile Phone Technology and Trends senior research analyst Ramon Llamas, in a statement.
“Ever since the first Galaxy device launched last year, the company has aggressively expanded and refreshed its selection to include the latest innovations and most popular features.”, he added
IDC researchers attributed the more modest smartphone market growth to the later-than-expected third-quarter launch of Apple’s new iPhone 4S, which didn’t result in quite the spike of smartphone shipments observed in previous periods that a next-generation Apple handset had been launched.
IDC smartphone share, 3Q11 |
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Vendor |
3Q 11 |
3Q11 market |
3Q10 |
3Q10 share |
Change in sales |
Samsung | 23.6 | 20.00% | 7.3 | 8.60% | 223.30% |
Apple | 17.1 | 14.50% | 14.1 | 17.00% | 21.30% |
Nokia | 16.8 | 14.20% | 26.5 | 32% | -36.60% |
HTC | 12.7 | 10.80% | 5.9 | 7.10% | 115.30% |
Research In Motion | 11.8 | 10.00% | 12.4 | 15.00% | -4.80% |
Others | 36.1 | 30.60% | 16.6 | 20.00% | 117.50% |
Total | 118.1 | 100 | 82.8 | 100 | 42.60% |
source: IDC | |||||
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