IDC: Smartphones overtake featurephones shipments, Samsung is on a roll

[krumme]

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24085413

"The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year over year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time. "

"In addition to smartphones displacing feature phones, the other major trend in the industry is the emergence of Chinese companies among the leading smartphone vendors,"

"Samsung maintained the position it held at the end of 2012: the undisputed leader in the worldwide smartphone market. By the end of 1Q13, Samsung shipped more units than the next four vendors combined. "

 

[R0H1T]

Great news, though its getting much harder to find any decent phone(not touch enabled ones) that isn't a smartphone these days especially after the official demise of symbian

 

[Yongsta]

Samsung is becoming too huge, reminds me of the 900 pound gorilla Intel (Samsung) vs AMD (Htc, LG) CPU wars. They can put out some competitive products and challenge like AMD did with their early Athlon CPU's but eventually they get swallowed up.

 

[jidery]

Samsung is becoming too huge, reminds me of the 900 pound gorilla Intel (Samsung) vs AMD (Htc, LG) CPU wars. They can put out some competitive products and challenge like AMD did with their early Athlon CPU's but eventually they get swallowed up.

This won't happen because you also have Apple.