Android captured almost 70% global smartphone market share in 2012, Apple just under 20%

January 28, 2013 2:52 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Apple may be winning the smartphone battle stateside, but Android is winning the global smartphone war being fought all over the world.

1.6 billion mobile phones shipped in 2012: Samsung ships 396.5M, Apple ships 135.8M

January 25, 2013 12:46 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Global phone shipments hit 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung shipping an massive 396.5 million phones last year.

Samsung shipped a stunning 57M smartphones in Q3 — twice as many as Apple

October 25, 2012 8:54 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Samsung shipped "the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single quarter."