It looks like Samsung’s smartphones are becoming even more popular, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung shipped a massive 56.9 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012.
The report also says that there were a total of 162 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter, that means that Samsung shipped around 35 percent of all smartphones for the quarter.
“This was the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single quarter,” Neil Mawston, Strategy Analytics’ executive director, said in a statement.
Apple apparently shipped around 26.9 million smartphones for the same quarter, and the two companies now make up over 50 percent of the smartphone market.
Source Venture Beat, Techmeme
