"The hero of smartphones. " This is how one of the analysts from the IDC consultancy refers to Samsung in statements collected by Reuters. And it is that the South Korean company could have closed the exercise of the second quarter of the year with a record of more than 50 million smartphones sold.
These are estimated data in a report from the aforementioned market analysis firm collected by said news agency, in which not only is mentioned this vertigo figure, but also the fact that, with it, a new record is sealed in a year that is prodigal in milestones for the Asian company.
This time the mark would be placed on the fact to have broken the record already set by Apple, who, incidentally, during the same period would have sold 30.5 million units of any of the current versions of the iPhone "" At present, they market the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S editions "". Thus, there is a more than notable distance of more than 20 million terminals between one and the other within the period that includes the months of April and June.
From Reuters they echo the conclusions of several studies carried out during the second quarter, which highlight the fact that it was the month of May that made the difference. It is not by chance that Samsung then decided to present and put on sale the Samsung Galaxy S3, its new reference smartphone, which has not only taken advantage of the corridor opened by Apple for another year, but has also served to put on the table the candidacy for the best-selling smartphone of the year: the first official forecasts of the companyThey place the sales of this model above ten million units for this month of July, closing the summer season with more than 19 million terminals sold.
It is necessary to underline the fact that the studies carried out by Reuters focus on the behavior of manufacturers in the smart mobile market. If it comes to analyzing the sales of mobile phones in general are Samsung and Nokia who are leading in fee. In this sense, the Korean continues to expand distances.
Although in the first quarter ”” when a third change was evident , after fourteen years of Finnish leadership ”” the margin was limited to just 3.4 million units, in the following three months the fault widened to 15, 7 million terminals. In global terms, it is still relatively small, although it marks a trend that implies an increase of almost five times the margins of the previous period.
By the way, within the conclusions of the analysis, special importance is placed on two manufacturers from China: Huawei and ZTE. These two companies, which for years have been involved in the manufacture of private label terminals in the telephone market, have set out to gain a good portion of the pie in the sector. So much so that in recent weeks, representatives of both multinationals expressed their intention to enter the podium as the third telephone manufacturer by 2015.
