Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls
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The worldwide mobile phone sales totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7 per cent from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc.
Worldwide smartphone sales totaled 210 million units in the first quarter of 2013, up 42.9 percent from the first quarter of 2012.
The Asia/Pacific region was the only region to show growth in mobile phone sales this quarter, with a 6.4 per cent increase year-on-year.
China saw its mobile phone sales increase 7.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, and its sales represented 25.7 per cent of global mobile phone sales, up nearly 2 percentage points year-on-year.
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Image: A stock trader dressed as a chicken stands on the trading floor at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt.
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Mobile phone sales: Samsung tops, Nokia falls
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Samsung
Sales: 100.65 million
Market share: 23.6%
Samsung topped the sales chart, growing 13 per cent in the first quarter of 2013. Its share of smartphones reached 30.8 per cent, up 3.2 percentage points from the first quarter of 2012.
"We expect the new Galaxy S4 to be very popular despite being more of an evolution than a truly revolutionary device compared to the S3," said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner.
(Sales, market share: Q1, 2013)
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Image: Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S4
Photographs: Courtesy, Samsung Electronics
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Nokia
Rank: 2
Sales: 63.21 million
Market share: 14.8%
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Image: Nokia Lumia 520.
Photographs: Courtesy, Nokia
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Apple
Rank: 3
Sales: 38.33 million
Market share: 9%
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Image: An iPhone 5 is displayed in the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York.
Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
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LG Electronics
Sales: 15.61 million
Market share: 3.7%
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Image: LG Optimus 2x (P990).
Photographs: Courtesy, LG
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ZTE
Rank: 5
Sales: 14.60 million
Market share: 3.4%
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Image: ZTE company logos are seen at an international software and information services exhibition in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
Photographs: Reuters
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Huawei Technologies
Rank: 6
Sales: 11.11 million
Market share: 2.6%
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Image: Huawei Ideos X5.
Photographs: Courtesy, Huawei
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TCL Communication
Rank: 7
Sales: 8.51 million
Market share: 2%
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Image: TCL Y900.
Photographs: Courtesy, TCL
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Sony Mobile Communications
Rank: 8
Sales: 7.95 million
Market share: 1.9%
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Image: Sony Xperia smartphones.
Photographs: Courtesy, Sony
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Lenovo
Rank: 9
Sales: 7.77 million
Market share: 1.8%
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Image: Lenovo S880 smartphone.
Photographs: Courtesy, Lenovo
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Yulong
Rank: 10
Sales: 7.47 million
Market share: 1.8%
Other mobile vendors
Sales: 150.55 million
Market share: 35.4%
Image: A motorist talks on his mobile phone as he waits at traffic lights in Beijing.
Photographs: Petar Kujundzic/Reuters
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