South Korean Samsung has started the year strong. With great force. Already at the end of 2011 a really hopeful summary of accounts was anticipated, and in fact, the putting in order of these during the first quarter of 2012 has yielded excellent data. It not only becomes the world's first mobile phone manufacturer. In addition, it also advances in this first curve of the year to position itself as number one in that specific category that we know as smart phones, or smartphones .
We may use the data provided by Strategy Analytics or IDC. Although the figures with which Samsung is placed at the top of the ranking of manufacturers of this type of devices dance, the invariable fact is that the Seoul firm surpasses the rest of its competitors in this arena. According to the information emanating from the investigation of the first cited consultancy, the South Korean company would have sold, during the first quarter, a total of 44.5 million terminals registered in the smartphone category, compared to the 35.1 million iPhones that would have sold apple. The same number of phones touched with the Californian apple is the one sent by the IDC data, although in the case of this other house of analysis, Samsung would have managed to reach 42.2 million devices, just about 2.3 million less than in the case of the homologous study.
Thus, taking into account the data from two analyzes, the growth expressed by Samsung in this last quarter in relation to the same period of the previous year would have oscillated between 253 and 267 percent, depending on whether we take information from Strategy Analytics or IDC as a reference.. A good part of the responsibility for these figures is determined by some of the terminals with which the South Korean firm has made an intense approach to the market, especially in the case of the Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy Y or Samsung Galaxy R, as well as reissues of the Samsung Galaxy Sthat were seen during the last quarter of 2011.
But the thing does not end there. The arguments with which Samsung wants to respond to the intentions of the competition are already beginning to reach the stores. We are talking about the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus, Samsung Galaxy Ace 2, Samsung Galaxy Mini 2, Samsung Galaxy Beam and Samsung Galaxy S Advance, high-mid-range terminals that will represent the outpost for the general public that will cover the jewel in the manufacturer's crown during 2012. We are talking about the Samsung Galaxy S3, a mobile that in a few hours will be discovered in London.
As for the figures of the competition in the IDC analysis, we have already told you that Apple is in second place with 35.1 million iPhones sold. The Nokia list continues, falling to third place with a share of 8.2 percent, represented by almost twelve million terminals sold. RIM also drops one position, and during the first quarter it sold 9.7 million mobile phones from its BlackBerry line.
