Samsung overtakes Apple as world's top smartphone maker

User Comments: 17

1. October 28, 2011 1:14 PM
   

   BMfan said:

   about time

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2. October 28, 2011 1:22 PM
   Guest said:

   Cream is finally rising to the top in the phone industry.

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3. October 28, 2011 2:31 PM
   Guest said:

   And on top of that...25% of iPhone's parts are made by Samsung. Lol!

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4. October 28, 2011 2:52 PM
   Guest said:

   Samsung is also the top oem for windows phones. Weird you'd mention nada and not that.

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5. October 28, 2011 3:03 PM
   Tomorrow_Rains said:

   whenever the samsung note comes out

   samsung can have all of my money

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6. October 28, 2011 4:06 PM
   Guest said:

   Will any time Nokia be once again the leader?

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7. October 28, 2011 5:21 PM
   

   mario, TechSpot Developer, said:

   Samsung doesn't actually provide a specific number of phones sold, they just say it grew 40 percent and according to some analysts it means 28 million devices.

   And those are phones shipped not sold. So there really is nothing to compare yet, since they don't represent the same thing.

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8. October 28, 2011 6:29 PM
   Guest said:

   apple is dead long live SAMSUNG

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9. October 28, 2011 8:02 PM
   Guest said:

   Is this surprising at all? When you have a superior product, you sell more of said product.

   Though all the iphones have tons of Samsung components in them, so they cash in on either sale anyway:

   Inside iPhone 4S...

   - A5 Application Processor: Samsung

   - IPS/Retina Display: LG

   - Dram/Sram Memory: Samsung

   - Battery: Samsung SDI

   - MLCC(Multi Layer Ceramcic Condenser): Samsung

   - Chip Varistor: Amotech (Korea)

   - FC(Flexible Circuitry): Interflex (Korea)

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10. October 28, 2011 9:34 PM
    yorro said:

    All because of Android.

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11. October 29, 2011 7:59 AM
    Guest said:

    In other news...The previous report was put out by Samsung dated a day before the release of the iPhone 4s.

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12. October 29, 2011 5:32 PM
    Guest said:

    And in other news... a flock of iSheep have been working overtime across numerous social networks trying to discredit anything that go against their beloved iPhone.

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13. October 29, 2011 5:51 PM
    Guest said:

    In other news...The previous report was put out by Samsung dated a day before the release of the iPhone 4s.

    True, but keep in mind... Nexus Prime is out this quarter as well, so it's irrelevant to bring up iPhone 4S sales at this early stage.

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14. October 30, 2011 6:55 AM
    Guest said:

    It is nearly not fair. Samsung sells a wider range of smartphones than Apple. Samsung is more adapted to the market than Apple because it can sell not only smartphones with android, windows but it can sell smartphones covering a large range of prices: from cheaper entry ones to the luxury ones. Apple has just the Iphone. Just a thought ...

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15. October 30, 2011 12:01 PM
    

    gcarter said:

    Samsung do indeed make nice phones, incredible hardware etc. However for me, the cases still leave a lot to be desired... feeling very plasticky. I prefer the aluminium surrounds of HTC models myself...

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16. October 30, 2011 6:23 PM
    lawfer, TechSpot Paladin, said:

    mario said:

    Samsung doesn't actually provide a specific number of phones sold, they just say it grew 40 percent and according to some analysts it means 28 million devices.

    And those are phones shipped not sold. So there really is nothing to compare yet, since they don't represent the same thing.

    And here is it ladies and gentleman, this is exactly how I know how much of an iSheep you really are, mario.

    In case you didn't read the title, it says Samsung overtakes Apple as the top smartphone maker. Not seller. Maker. Not quite the same thing.

    Although units shipped are not precisely indicative of units sold, usually the gap between them is little. The higher the units shipped, the higher the demand. Higher demand means higher production, and consequently, higher profit. Economics 101.

    Only units manufactured and fully shipped to retailers are being put into this article's equation. So please, just please...

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17. October 31, 2011 2:22 PM
    katoDRAGON said:

    Guest said:

    And on top of that...25% of iPhone's parts are made by Samsung. Lol!

    Thats what i was thinking, iphones could drop dead if sammy decided that it didn't want to support apple anymore, although i dont know why it would cuz thier making good money off it

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