Samsung Passes Nokia As Biggest Handset Manufacturer

rtfa-troll writes "Tomi Ahonen reports that Samsung has become the largest manufacturer of smartphones (overtaking Apple) and of mobile phones (overtaking Nokia). During the first quarter of 2012 Samsung sold 93.5 million phones, with 44.5 million (48%) of those being smartphones. Apple would still lead on 'smart mobile devices' with 52 million sales including iPads, but not iPods. The last time the lead in mobile phone sales changed was in 14 years ago, in 1998, when Nokia overtook Ericsson. Ericsson never recovered and began leaving the mobile phone market three years later, creating Sony Ericsson, later Sony Mobile. It looks like the mobile phone market is going to be brutal, with Apple and Samsung crushing everybody else except possibly HTC, which is still rising, and Motorola (which has Google to look after it)."

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Re:Already warming up my "I told you so" dance.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, hi shill. Amazing how quickly you spout this copy-pasted list of companies whenever Microsoft's nasty tendency to kill and absorb their partners.
It's amazing how often I see this list of companies on various tech sites.

The above companies are OEMs that make generic hardware that can run Microsoft software. Not what I'm talking about.

Of course, Microsoft has other ways to burn it's regular partners.. Remember "Play's for sure"? Remember how they threw every non-apple music player under the bus when the released the Zune, with it's own exclusive music store and ties to other services like windows live and xbox?