Samsung leapfrogs Nokia- It was always in the offing. But has happened to the delight of everyone at Samsung. Samsung smartphone have sold more and grabbed the bigger market share in the West Euroean regon in the first quarter of 2011 and replaced Nokia from the number one position. According to the market analysis report from IDC that was released recently, Samsung smartphones have outsold Nokia when it came to the sheer numbers of smartphones sold in West Europe for the quarter. The mobile phone research firm has clearly pointed to a healthy near 30 per cent of the market share.
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Samsung Mobile Phones has been able to do this has it was one phone company that saws the future potential of touchscreen phones quite early and was hence, able to react to it accordingly much faster. Though this development has been on expected lines, it does indicate to a change in the prevailing equations with the South Korean mobile phone giant poised for bigger growth in the second quarter of 2011 as well.The confidence comes from the fact that Samsung has been able to sell a staggering 10 million units of its flagship Samsung Galaxy S and quite a few of its other smartphones have also been doing pretty well in recent months. Nokia though managed to somehow clinging to the second position with Apple, Blackberry and HTC smartphones following very perilously close to it.
More Powerful Products coming up! Samsung now has its mega super phone in the Samsung Galaxy SII and the upgraded mobile computer tablet device, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 coming into the market place. There is a LTE 4G phone also in the offing. Put together, this premier phone company does look all set to take over the marker share in a far more overwhelming way. In fact, way back in March 2010 itself, Samsung had annonced its intentions to defeat Apple and seems to have succeeded to a reasonable extent, as its Galaxy S and the Galaxy Tab have been obtaiining more than remarkable sales figures.
At the world level also, Samsung has been turning up brilliant performaces with the market share of tis Android driven smartphones increasing every where from the USA, India China, Australia and even the African markets. Though the role played by the network carriers in all this growth cannot be ignored at all. We have to look at only instance like the
Samsung Tocco Lite Pink Deals to know who intelligently they are pricing the various Samsung phones.
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