Samsung blows past Apple to take No. 1 smartphone spot in Q3

Following Samsung’s third-quarter earnings report on Friday morning, the South Korea-based electronics giant is now confirmed to have passed Apple to become the top smartphone vendor in the world by volume. Reports from last week suggested Samsung had bested Apple’s stalled smartphone shipments during the September quarter to take the No. 1 spot, and now Samsung has confirmed that it surpassed the 17.1 million iPhones Apple shipped by a wide margin. Read on for more. Headed by the company’s popular Galaxy S II line of handsets, Samsung shipped 27.9 million smartphones last quarter, nearly 10 million units better than Apple’s performance by volume. Apple spent just one quarter as the world’s top smartphone vendor when it shipped 20.34 million iPhone

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/28/samsung-blows-past-apple-to-take-no-1-smartphone-spot-in-q3/

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