Samsung is a leader in smartphonegebied. The manufacturer sold about 40 million smartphones in the last quarter, while Apple’s 37 million sold. Also over 2011, the Korean manufacturer with the most smartphones sold.
Samsung does itself no exact figures are known, but it does give percentages with numbers. Compared to the previous quarter sold the manufacturer 30 percent more smartphones. In that third quarter were the smartphoneverkopen 300 percent compared to a year earlier. Because in that quarter a year before Samsung 7.85 million smartphones sold, which is the number now, so roughly around 40,8 million, can be several hundreds of thousands of copies care by rounding in percentages. Apple sold 37 million iPhones, Nokia came out almost 20 million smartphones.
In total, the number of sold smartphones from Samsung in 2011 come out at around 110 million. Apple sold there in the last year 93 million, while Nokia remained stuck at 77 million. Thus, Samsung is also about the year as a whole the market leader. Expected to regard the vast majority of the handsets sold Android smartphones in Samsung’s Galaxy line.
The actual number of sold smartphones differs substantially from the expectations of analysts. Analysts had expected that Samsung up to 32-35 million units would sell. The same analysts were Apple also already quite in addition to; the number of sold iPhones was estimated to be 30 million, also millions too low.
In addition to the telecomdivisie also revealed Samsung’s tv division to do well. The sales of led tvs grew by 55 percent compared to the previous quarter. Less successful was Samsung in the sales of schermpanelen and memory. The number of panels increased by 19 percent compared to the same quarter last year, but the panelendivisie made or loss. The turnover from memory decreased by 1 percent compared with the same quarter last year. Across the board, made Samsung a net profit of 2.7 billion euros.
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