Samsung pulls away from Apple - IT.Branschen

class=”articleStory telekom”> TELECOM The South Korean electronics giant Samsung sold almost twice as many smartphones as Apple in the first quarter.

South Korean Samsung Electronics , a third of the global smartphone market in the first quarter.

class=”paragraphIntro”> While slowing sales growth of Apple’s iPhone in to the slowest pace so far.

According to the data from research firm Strategy Analytics, reports Bloomberg News.

Samsung smart telephone rose by 56 percent to 69.4 million units in the first quarter of 2013, compared with the same quarter of 2012.

Apple’s smart telemarketing step by 6.6 percent to 37.4 million units during the quarter. LG Electronics took the same time for the first time third place on this list, followed by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE.

Total rose global deliveries by 36 percent to 210 million units in the quarter, driven to transition to 3G technology in China and the 4G technology in the United States.

– Samsung sold nearly twice as many smartphones and grew nine times faster than Apple in the quarter. Samsung should continue to deliver great smartphone volumes during the second quarter, commented Neil Maston, an analyst at Strategy Analytics.

Samsung, as with its final figures for the first quarter reported a record profit on Friday , also starts selling its new flagship phone Galaxy S4 in South Korea and Hong Kong on Friday, and in the United States and Australia on Saturday.

Even when it of overall mobile phone sales, Samsung was at the top with a market share of 27.5 percent, followed by Nokia, with a share of 14.8 percent, and Apple with a market share of 8.9 percent.

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