Last week Apple and Nokia announced the financial results for the last 3 months of this year and we discovered that Apple with its 20.3 million iPhone terminals sold exceeded Nokia has become the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. This title could be quickly stolen by Samsung who, according to Bloomberg, would have managed to sell between 18 and 21 million smartphones in the last months. It would be enough for Samsung to sell 20.4 million smartphones and it would surpass Apple and then the competition between the 2 companies would become even fiercer.
Samsung Electronics Co., maker of the Galaxy mobile phone, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc. in smartphone sales for the first time on demand for devices that run on Android software, a research company said.
Samsung is estimated to have sold between 18 million and 21 million smartphones globally in the April-June quarter, compared with 16.7 million for Nokia and 20.3 million iPhones, Neil Mawston, a London-based analyst at Strategy Analytics, a research company based in Boston , said in an e-mailed response to questions on July 22. The data excludes tablet-computer sales.
Of course, the information comes from an American analyst, so it must be viewed with a great degree of distrust, but if it is true, then Apple would receive a pretty big blow. Apple and Samsung collaborate in many fields, but they are also "locked" in a fight in the American courts and if Samsung were to surpass those from Apple, then there is a good chance that the efforts of the Cupertino company's lawyers will be intensified. I find it hard to believe that Samsung sold more than 20.3 million smartphones in the last 3 months, but Apple managed to beat analysts' forecasts, so anything is possible.
