14.11.2012 09:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Gartner: smartphone sales up 47 percent in Q3 -- Apple wins, Nokia loses

Third quarter figures from Gartner are out, and the analyst outfit is claiming worldwide mobile phone sales slowed again in Q3, dropping 3.1 percent compared with last year. Smartphone sales jumped 46.9 percent over Q3 2011, claiming 36.9 percent of all 428 million handsets sold. As you would imagine, Apple and Samsung sold the most, accounting for almost half of all worldwide purchases. Nokia's overall mobile sales took a heavy hit, dropping 21.9 percent in Q3 and only selling 7.2 million smartphones. Thus, Nokia's ranking in this segment plummeted from third to seventh, although Gartner expects th

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