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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Last updated on: May 16, 2013 07:50 IST

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The worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7 per cent from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc.

Worldwide smartphone sales totaled 210 million units in the first quarter of 2013, up 42.9 percent from the first quarter of 2012.

The Asia/Pacific region was the only region to show growth in mobile phone sales this quarter, with a 6.4 per cent increase year-on-year. 

China saw its mobile phone sales increase 7.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, and its sales represented 25.7 per cent of global mobile phone sales, up nearly 2 percentage points year-on-year.

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S4
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Samsung

Sales: 100.65 million
Market share: 23.6%

Samsung topped the sales chart, growing 13 per cent in the first quarter of 2013. Its share of smartphones reached 30.8 per cent, up 3.2 percentage points from the first quarter of 2012.

"We expect the new Galaxy S4 to be very popular despite being more of an evolution than a truly revolutionary device compared to the S3," said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner.

(Sales, market share: Q1, 2013)

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: Nokia Lumia 520.
Photographs: Courtesy, Nokia

Nokia

Rank: 2

Sales: 63.21 million

Market share: 14.8%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: An iPhone 5 is displayed in the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York.
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Apple

Rank: 3

Sales: 38.33 million

Market share: 9%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: LG Optimus 2x (P990).
Photographs: Courtesy, LG

LG Electronics

Sales: 15.61 million

Market share: 3.7%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
Photographs: Reuters

ZTE

Rank: 5

Sales: 14.60 million

Market share: 3.4%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: Huawei Ideos X5.
Photographs: Courtesy, Huawei

Huawei Technologies

Rank: 6

Sales: 11.11 million

Market share: 2.6%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: TCL Y900.
Photographs: Courtesy, TCL

TCL Communication

Rank: 7

Sales: 8.51 million

Market share: 2%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: Sony Xperia smartphones.
Photographs: Courtesy, Sony

Sony Mobile Communications

Rank: 8

Sales:  7.95 million

Market share: 1.9%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: Lenovo S880 smartphone.
Photographs: Courtesy, Lenovo

Lenovo

Rank: 9

Sales: 7.77 million

Market share: 1.8%

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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls

Image: A motorist talks on his mobile phone as he waits at traffic lights in Beijing.
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Yulong

Rank: 10

Sales: 7.47 million

Market share: 1.8%

Other mobile vendors

Sales: 150.55 million

Market share: 35.4%


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