Samsung takes smartphone crown in Q3 as shipments top Apple, Nokia

By on Oct 20, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Business October 20, 2011

Samsung reportedly shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the third calendar quarter of this year, moving the South Korea-based company ahead of Apple for the first time since the iPhone was unveiled. Apple on Tuesday revealed that it shipped 17.1 million iPhone handsets during the September quarter, missing analyst expectations by more than 3 million units. According to The Wall Street Journal’s anonymous source, Samsung shipped more than 20 million smartphones during the quarter, pushing it past Apple. With Nokia having shipped just 16.8 million smartphones last quarter, down 38% from 27.1 million in the same quarter a year earlier, this also makes Samsung the No. 1 smartphone vendor by volume in the third quarter of 2011. Samsung has not yet revealed official shipment figures for the third quarter.

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  • Anonymous

    Atta boy Sammy looks like copying crApple really paid off for you. :)

  • Anonymous

    When I was a kid, my dad always told me this – “Son, copying people ain’t gonna make you a better man. At best, you’d be nearly equal to the person you copied.” Guess that doesn’t apply here.

  • http://twitter.com/maffyoot matthew taylor

    This is complete rubbish, as has been pointe out on other blogs. Samsung were famously embarrased by their last “shipments” figures, when it turned out that most stores still had these Galaxy Tab shipments and hadnt found customers for them. Yet again Samsung use shipments and if you check (as any decent journo should) apple’s figure is devices Sold to customers, not shipments…lazy …

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