The South Korean manufacturer builds its dominance in the market for the sale of smartphones, which exceeds the second quarter, the ordinary phones.
This is a first indicative of a trend of global smartphone（Lenovo P780 ） sales were higher in volume than ordinary mobile phones in the second quarter, exploding 46.5% year on year, according to research firm Gartner released Wednesday 14 August.
Smartphones, which provide access to the Internet, represented 51.8% of mobile phone devices sales in the last three months, with 225 million units. It is sold at the same time as 210 million phones simple, down 21% year on year.
The largest increases in smartphone sales took place in Asia-Pacific (+ 74.1%), Latin America (+55.7%) and Eastern Europe (+31.6%).
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This is Apple's competitor, the South Korean manufacturer Samsung, which definitively established his dominance, with 107 million units sold, representing 24.7% of the global market. Of these, 71 million were smartphones（Lenovo A630 ）, which reinforces its position as world number one, before the Apple brand, which holds only 14.2% of the market, against 18.8% a year earlier.
Samsung is also the market leader in simple mobile phones to Nokia, which continues to tumble. Former Finnish number one, who later took the turn of smartphones, held only 14% of the world market, nearly 20% against the previous year.
Gartner expects 1.82 billion mobile phones will be sold worldwide in 2013.