May 1st, 2012, 1:46 P.M. — Samsung leading smartphone shipment-contest, beating Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion. The new data arrived ahead of the anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 launch this week.
Samsung Mobile, the top Android phone maker, bagged yet another positive news revealing that its smartphone lineup attracted more customers than smartphones of its rivals like Apple and Nokia.
According to IDC’s latest findings, Samsung Mobile shipped more smartphones than its smartphone market rivals with an impressive 29.1 per cent of the market or 42.2 million smartphones shipped, bigger than Apple’s iPhone record of 35.1 million or 24.2 per cent of the market. The former mobile phone leader, Nokia, lags behind Apple and Samsung with a single digit Q1 2012 record of 11.2 million only, and about 8.2 per cent of the total lucrative smartphone market.
Research in Motion, ahead of its BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system, is still struggling with 9.7 million and around 6.7 per cent of the market. Another Android phone maker, Taiwan’s HTC corporation, is stuck with a single digit Q1 finish, 6.1 million smartphones and 4.8 per cent share.
The new good news for Samsung came ahead of the widely anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 that will reportedly get a Q2 international release date, and with United States wireless carrier support, Samsung is expected to ship the new device to the U.S. before Q4. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is expected to come with Android Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box, a new display with more pixels per inch, and reportedly includes a new camera sensor. The Samsung Galaxy S3, analysts believe, is the device that will compete against Apple’s iPhone 5, and Microsoft’s Windows 8 smartphones including Nokia’s next-gen Lumia devices that will reportedly ship with the new operating system.
Apple’s iPhone 4S, according to IDC, is the most popular smartphone of Apple inc, followed by the 2-year old iPhone 4. Samsung’s Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Note, apparently, allowed Samsung to maintain its smartphone growth.
Samsung’s Galaxy Note is now available in United States with 4G LTE or Long Term Evolution running under AT&T’s banner. The new Galaxy Note, according to reviews, is an innovative device that sits between the smartphone and tablet categories. The Galaxy Note features a 5.3-inch screen, Android Gingerbread operating system, a dual-core CPU clocked at 1.4GHz, an 8-megapixel camera, and a stylus pen called “S Pen.”
According to online retailers, the Samsung Galaxy Note is “more expensive” than the year-old Samsung Galaxy S2, but they expect to see a continuous price drop over the coming quarters because the Samsung Galaxy S3 is expected to take the top end spot of the high-end smartphone category.
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