Apple sold 35.46 million four quarters into the world's first super samsung smartphone

February 16, news, according to foreign media reports, market research institutions, local time, 15, Gartner, said apple in the fourth quarter, more than samsung (the Po) electronic company as the world's largest smart cellphone manufacturers.

According to Gartner to provide the data, in the fourth quarter, apple sold a total of 35.46 million smart phones, in addition, apple's smartphone market share from 15.8% growth in the same period of last year to 23.8%.

Apple rival samsung electronics the fourth quarter 34 million smartphone sales department.

Gartner said: "because apple and samsung's brand, and new products stand out, the two companies in the fourth quarter, the further cemented in the frontier of market position."

Global smartphone in the fourth quarter of the total sales of 149 million, an increase of 47.3%. Sales of smart phones in all, run in Google (the Po) Android operating system smartphone 50.9%, year-on-year growth of 30.5%. Nokia (the Po) Symbian operating system continues to lose market share, up from 32.3% to 11.7%. Nokia announced last year are phased out of its aging Symbian platform, and on all new smart cellphones using Microsoft (the Po) Windows Phone operating system. Although nokia launched several kinds of new Windows Phone equipment, but this operating system market share is still small, only 1.9% in the fourth quarter.

Gartner says fourth quarter, mobile equipment total sales for 476.5 million sets, an increase of 5.4%.

Nokia in the fourth quarter, maintain the world's largest maker of mobile phones as status, in the overall mobile devices in the market for market share of 23.4%, and 27.1% in the same period last year slipped. However, samsung with nokia, at the 19.4% of the market share, samsung 2010 in the same period the market share of 17.5%.

Strong sales in the iPhone, pushed by apple in the fourth quarter, become the third largest supplier of mobile phone, more than samsung.

Gartner mobile equipment market overall is expected to grow by around 7%, and the growth rate of the smart cellphone is expected to slow to 39%.