In the second quarter of 2013, Samsung sold its 71 million handsets enabled with Internet. Samsung by increasing its shares from 30% to 33% in the mobile market has made its position strong as the world’s leading smartphone vendor.
According to the latest strategy analytics Samsung when compared with Apple shipped about 2.4 times more smartphones around the world in the second quarter of 2013, which is 1.9 times more than the first quarter.
With the advancement in technology more and more people are now getting attracted towards mobiles or tablets leaving behind laptop and desktop computers. People can easily access the Internet and log on to their social media account without switching on the computers. This is the major reason of an increase in smartphones sale this quarter when compared to the same period last year. The sale has increased about 74% in Asia-Pacific, and 56% in Latin America, while in Eastern Europe, 32% more of the devices were sold in the second quarter of 2013.
“Smartphones accounted for 51.8% of mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013, resulting in Smartphone sales surpassing feature phone sales for the first time,” said Gartner analyst Anshul Gupta.
Samsung now holds about 33% shares of the global smartphone market after selling 76 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2013, while on the other hand Apple could only sell 31.2 million handsets, having 13.5% shares.
Lenovo, a well-known Chinese company that manufactures personal computers, was able to double its sales by making a determined push into mobile. The company was able to increase its sales from 4m to 11m, which makes the company the fourth largest global smartphone vendor, ranking after LG Electronics.
However, Lenovo mostly relies on its home market, the sales of the company in China only represents 95% of the total. “It remains challenging for Lenovo to expand outside China as it has to strengthen its direct channel, as well as its relationships with communications service providers,” said Gupta.
Nokia when compared with Samsung is the second largest mobile phone manufacturing company globally, holding 14% shares that are behind Samsung’s 25% shares. Microsoft has overtaken the BlackBerry market for the first time because of its most popular range of smartphone operating systems. Mostly the credit goes to Nokia Lumia, in which the company for the first time introduced Windows phone software.
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