3:15 AM - Smartphone market will enter qualifying session
On April 20, according to a Forbes report, analysis shows that Samsung will surpass Apple in Smartphone sales in the first quarter of the year.
Apple's sales will be launched in the first quarter earnings next Tuesday. Wall Street expects Apple to the quarter iPhone sales of $ 32 million to 33 million. Although this is not a small number, but not enough for Apple to be champions.
ACI Research analyst of Edward Zabitsky said in an analysis report, Samsung about 40 million smartphones were sold in the first quarter, ahead of other competitors.
It is reported that fierce competition in the Smartphone market will continue. Samsung will be released on May 3, Galaxy S3, Zhabitski said that the new Exynos 44,124 processors produced that is using the Samsung, equipped with the same retinal image quality and low consumption of manufactured by Samsung Super AMOLED+ display.
Zhabitski also said that Samsung smartphones on a lower cost than Apple. He said that purchasing power of Samsung and Apple, Samsung Galaxy mobile phone spare parts design and production costs of about 60 to 80 dollars, Apple iPhone 4S in the design cost is US $ 25, not including the cost of production. Samsung uses its own production processor, display, and memory will reflect the advantages in the future.
Apple recently released for the 2011 four-quarter report for the fiscal year ended September 24, 2011 showed that , Apple last quarter revenues of us $ 28.27 billion, an increase of 39%; 6.623 billion dollars in net profit, an increase of nearly 54%. Apple sold 17.07 million iPhone sales in the quarter, an increase of 21%. Now Apple iPhone5 is coming, even some iPhone fans have bought some iphone cases, such as cool iphone cases, cute iphone cases and luxury iphone cases, so how will Samsung deal with Apple iPhone5?
Apple as a mobile rising star of the year to start off in 2007, just 4 years to become the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, their success can be attributed to three things:
1. smooth sales channels. Cooperation in more than 200 countries and mobile operators in the world, not only to rapidly spread in the market, and has a very strong user stickiness.
2. boot policy success in consumer demand in the market. Apple always pursuit of fashion and innovation as a product, do not follow blindly but rather to guide the user's demand, iPhone series smart phone advanced design concept captures the hearts of millions of consumers, there is the biggest-selling smartphone brand.
3. the perfect combination of hardware and software. Apple doesn't like other mobile phone manufacturers trying to concentrate our efforts on the hardware upgrade, but based on the eco-system, software and hardware interaction, not only provides the best possible experience for the user, and significant cost savings, thus ensuring high margins of more than all other competitors.
According to third-quarter earnings released Samsung, Smartphone shipments grew by 44%, sales could reach $ 27.8 million, there were more than Apple and became the world's first smart phone manufacturers. Samsung has surpassed Apple to become the leading smartphone manufacturers in the NO.1 for the time being, but analysts believe that as the iPhone 4S sales in the fourth quarter, Apple will be returning to the champions of the Smartphone market.
Samsung's success is due mainly to its Android smart phones, especially the Galaxy s series of smartphones best selling in global markets, Galaxy SII went public in May of this year to have only won the 10 million sales. In addition, Samsung mobile low balance in high school, each class has a representative model, upgrading has been very fast, can be captured in a timely manner to the latest market requirements, which makes it in the highly competitive smartphone market leadership position.
Nokia fiscal 2011 third quarter results showed that total revenues to 8.98 billion euros in the third quarter, down 13%; net loss of 68 million euros (94 million dollars), and net profit to 529 million euros in the same period last year. Traditional mobile phone shipments to 89.8 million smartphones shipped 16.8 million. Nokia's loss this quarter, mainly because the smart phone shipments decline 39%, overall revenues declined 13%.
Nokia is currently a major transition, since the announced abandoning Symbian, MeeGo, after switching to Windows Phone, its market share, profitability and stocks all fell at free fall speed. Impact of the Apple and Android smartphones, Symbian Smartphone market share continues to decline. Marriage bet with Microsoft Windows Phone, but delay in launch of their leading products.
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