Samsung rivaling HTC, Motorola to take second place among US carriers' after iPhone 4S
Across the past four months, Samsung's Galaxy S II has established itself as the second most popular model at AT&T and Sprint, and the most popular phone at T-Mobile, which does not carry Apple's iPhone line.
At Verizon, the company's Galaxy Nexus, cobranded by Google, was ousted for second place by Motorola's cheaper RAZR/RAZR Maxx. HTC took the runner up spots on T-Mobile, while Nokia's Windows Phone 7 Lumia 710 model briefly appeared as T-Mobile's third favorite in January and February. It has since fallen out of the top three at that carrier, replace by the Galaxy S Blaze.
In a note obtained by AppleInsider, Canaccord Genuity technology analyst Michael Walkley wrote, "we believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Sprint and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon," adding that Apple and Samsung "continued to consolidate share with sales rebounding after a slow start to 2012."
Walkley wrote, "our global checks also indicated another quarter of strong market share gains for Samsung, particularly in Europe and Asia. In fact, we believe Samsungâs strong smartphone portfolio across all price tiers will result in Samsungâs smartphone shipments increasing a remarkable 15%-plus sequentially during the seasonally weak March quarter.â
Samsungâs broad range of SKUs and price points "has resulted in share gains within the growing pre-paid smartphone market," the analyst said, noting that in the first quarter, Samsung shipped an estimated 28.2 percent of all smartphones while Apple's iPhone made up 22.4 percent of sales.
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Well, Moto's nosediving (has been for well over a year) and HTC can't seem to get a decent phone out despite re-hashing and re-naming of the same lousy phone.
At least Samsung is trying to follow Apple's business model as closely as possible - the unfortunate consequence of which is that they can't help but copy nearly everything - from phone design, right down to the packaging and even TV ads.
But whatever. Android is a godawful mess anyway.
Very impressive, their latest, greatest phone managed to displace Apple's 2 year old iPhone 4 and 3 year old iPhone 3GS from the second and third spots.
Very impressive, their latest, greatest phone managed to displace Apple's 2 year old iPhone 4 and 3 year old iPhone 3GS from the second and third spots.
So much for buyers going with Android only 'cause they're cheap.
Very impressive, their latest, greatest phone managed to displace Apple's 2 year old iPhone 4 and 3 year old iPhone 3GS from the second and third spots.
I do think the Samsung Galaxy Note being the 3rd most popular device on AT&T in March 2012 is impressive. That device has legs much in the same way Apple's iPhone has shown to increase in unit sales in subsequent quarters. It's hard to imagine that people put that 5" device up to their head for a phone call, but perhaps they are using it with headphones or a BT earpiece.
Maybe there is a very real market for a 5" device after all, the Dell Streak not withstanding.
So much for buyers going with Android only 'cause they're cheap.
The S2 is the same price as the iPhone 4 on AT&T....