Market analyst IDC has released some new data covering the European mobile market, claiming Samsung is now the #1 hardware manufacturer. Samsung took 29% of the entire mobile phone market in Q1 of 2011, an increase of 5% over the previous period.
It took the #1 spot from Nokia, which saw sales collapse by 10% over the same period. Here’s another photo from inside the Samsung Galaxy S II manufacturing facility:
In overall terms of smartphone OS market share, IDC has Android on 36% of the European smartphone market, with iOS devices down on 21% and Nokia third on a shade over 20%. Also, the smartphone market now accounts for 47% of total phone sales.
Link via the Telegraph.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Mark
/ May 9, 2011Microsoft, RIM and Nokia are quickly joining the Mobile has-beens (or in Microsoft’s case, never have been).
Toto
/ May 9, 2011I think you (and/or the Telegraph) are mixing up phone and smartphone market share numbers.
Samsung is now number one in all phone sales, but is only 5th in smartphones (after Apple, Nokia, RIM & HTC in that order) with 12% of the smartphone market. That’s a respectable third of Android sales (though Samsung sales might include a smattering of Windows and Bada handsets) but not quite as amazing as outselling all the other guys on that list. I wouldn’t rule that out for a quarter or so in the future though, Samsung’s on a bit of a tear lately.
Gary C
/ May 9, 2011Yes, you’re right. Thanks. I’ll edit that mess I made.
Anonymous
/ May 9, 2011The original source is probably
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUK22816311
Amazing to see Samsung with 744% smartphone growth year on year.
Gary C
/ May 9, 2011Thanks. A great 271% increase from HTC, too.