Samsung should pass Nokia to become the top cellphone maker of any kind in 2012, Sanford Bernstein analyst Mark Newman said in a research note Thursday. After passing Apple in smartphones, it was now due to eclipse Nokia's once-unassailable lead in cellphones of any kind. Newman saw Samsung as being unique in having both a strong position in smartphones and a willingness to cater down to the very low end, preventing it from losing out in basic phones like Apple and smartphones like Nokia.
