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The worldwide smartphone market grew 42.5 percent year-over-yearduring the first quarter, as Samsung Electronics overtook Apple forthe smartphone leadership position, according to IDC's estimates. Vendors shipped 144.9 million smartphones during the first threemonths of 2012 compared to 101.7 million in the same period lastyear, the market research company said. Samsung sold 42.2 million smartphones, which is a new record, whileApple sold 35.1 million during the first quarter. That means aboutevery second smartphone sold across the world came from eitherSamsung or Apple. Since Samsung doesn't report unit numbers, IDC and its competitorshave to estimate how many devices the company sells. Last week, Strategy Analytics said Samsung shipped 44.5 millionsmartphones in the first quarter, while another research firm IHSiSuppli said the company only shipped 32 million, giving it thesecond place in the smartphone market. The race between Apple and Samsung remained tight during thequarter, according to IDC. Propelling Samsung forward was thecontinued expansion of its Galaxy portfolio in nearly alldirections, while the launch of the iPhone 4S in China helped boostApple sales, it said. Apart from shipments by Samsung and Apple, the numbers weren't verypretty during the first quarter. Nokia came in third by selling 11.9 million units, but thecompany's market share dropped by 50.8 percent, according to IDC. Symbian phone shipments declined precipitously as demand dropped inimportant emerging markets, including China. The company's currentwoes make a speedy transition to products powered by the WindowsPhone operating system critical, IDC said. Research In Motion (RIM) saw its unit sales drop by 29.7 percentreaching levels not seen since 2009, according to IDC. But 9.7million units was still enough to make it the fourth largestvendor. Like Nokia, RIM is a company in transition. Smartphones running onits new platform, BlackBerry 10, will be released later this year.Until then, results like these may be a sign of things to come,according to IDC. HTC, which came in fifth place, sold 6.9 million smartphones duringthe first three months of 2012, compared to 9 million during thesame period in 2011, according to IDC's data. HTC continued to struggle in the U.S. market, and the company isnow staking its future success in large part on its One X and One Sproducts. "The smartphone market is a two-horse race at moment, and we don'tsee that changing this year," said Francisco Jeronimo, researchmanager at IDC. Send news tips and comments to mikael_ricknas@idg.com. I am an expert from songiclaser.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Body Shaping Machine , China No Needle Mesotherapy, 808nm Diode Laser Hair Removal,and more.
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