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Mobile Devices by vendor Marketshare sold for in Q4,2011 To end Users
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Mobile Devices by Vendors Marketshare sold for the year ,2011 To end Users |
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Apple’s last quarter has seen it sales cross 35.5 million units and grabbing a 23.8% market share, and in the process replaced Samsung as the Biggest Smartphone Company in q3,201 |
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The
world's largest smartphone vendor Apple is showing signs of slowdown in the
fourth quarter, as the iPhone 4s market
shows “ signs of wearing down and slipping from the no 1 position for a couple of
quarters as the novelty of its latest 4S model runs out.
According to figures released by
Gartner smartphone sales for the period came to a staggering 149
million units in Q4 2011, a 47.3% increase compared to the year-ago quarter.
Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and
accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from 2010.
Compared to Smartphones,worldwide mobile device sales to end users totalled 476.5
million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 5.4 percent increase from the
same period in 2010
However the latest Garter research suggest that the Apple iPhone 4s party is over as and there will not be a repeat of Apple's 2011 sales numbers as the iphone 4s which drove Apple to the top spot shows shows signs of decline
However Apple's strong performance will
continue into the first quarter of 2012 as
availability of theiPhone 4S widens, but without the
benefit from delayed purchases sales would decline from the previous quarter.
The overall growth in global cellphone sales volume has been slowing to 7 percent from 11 percent
growth seen last year, in 2011, while smartphone market growth would slow to 39
percent from 58 percent.
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