iPhone 4S Helps Apple Claim Top Smartphone Spot - higginshavem1951

Apple was the undisputed leader of the smartphone grocery store in the last quarter, every bit rival Nokia lost most a third of its sales, according to the latest research from the World Data Corp. The iPhone 4S was the hottest-selling smartphone during the holidays, nearly followed by Samsung's devices, as the market grew aside almost 55 percent from live year.

Apple is now the mankind's third-largest telephone maker by shipments and market share, behind Nokia and Samsung — but when IT comes to smartphone gross sales, Apple is bit solely to Samsung on a yearly fundament. In the last fourth part Apple sold the most smartphones, 37 million, with Samsung hot on its heels at 36 1000000. On a each year cornerston though, Samsung shipped some 800,000 smartphones more than Apple.

IDC says various factors played a role in the 37 million iPhones sold last quarter: the combination of holiday seasonality, the iPhone's delayed launch from the third quarter to the fourth, and the increase of multiple mobile operators.

"The launch of Apple's iPhone 4S played a key role in smartphone increment to capture repressed demand, and smartphone launches from opposite vendors likewise provided a wide-screen selection to meet varying preferences and budgets," explained Ramon Llamas, superior search analyst with IDC.

While Apple and Samsung are battling complete the top fleck, Nokia posted the largest class-over-class decrease in smartphone sales, IDC reported. Nokia, still the public's largest phone producer, shipped some one million Windows Headphone 7 smartphones in the conclusion quarter, as demand for its Symbian-steam-powered smartphones appears to have waned. Inquiry In Motion has dropped 11 percent in sales during the unvaried period as well.

Meanwhile, HTC recorded a 17 percent growth in sales in the fourth part quarter, compared to the corresponding period last year, mainly because of several product launches such as the Windows Phone-powered Giant and Radio detection and ranging models, the Beats-influenced Rezound, and the LTE-enabled Vivid.

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