According to the results of 2012, analysts from IHS iSuppli identified the top five global vendors of “smart phones”.
In 2012, smartphones accounted for 47% of all mobile phones shipped to the market, according to preliminary data from the analytical company IHS iSuppli. For comparison, last year this figure was 35%. Thus, global smartphone shipments as a whole increased by 34%.
Samsung has secured a leading position among smartphone manufacturers: by the end of this year, it owns 28% of the market. At the same time, the vendor’s share has grown significantly, in 2011 it had one fifth of the global smartphone market.
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Apple summed up the results of 2012 almost unchanged: now it owns 20% of the global market, in the past its share was 19%.
And the reduction of the smartphone market share to 5% was shown by three manufacturing companies at once: HTC, RIM and Nokia. According to the results of last year, the last of them owned 16% of the world market.