Apple takes back the name of largest supplier of smartphones

Apple has in the last quarter regained the lead in the global smartphone market, selected it earlier. This is illustrated in the last three months of last year, officially released by research firm Strategy Analytics, according to which the iPhone supplies during the reporting period amounted to 37 million units (market share of 23.9 per cent). At the same time, world's second largest vendor Samsung Electronics was able to ship the same time, the "only" 36.5 million smartphones.
Statistics Strategy Analytics noted that the estimates of experts Strategy Analytics indirectly confirmed by data from the company from Cupertino, recently reported sales for the first quarter of 2012 fiscal year, 37.04 million iPhone. Naturally, the numbers Apple, was influenced by the autumn edition of the latest iPhone 4S, already had time to become very popular among consumers. Also note that the total shipments of smartphones in the fourth quarter reached a record high of 155 million, an increase of 54 percent over the same period last year.