Samsung Tops Nokia Again as Biggest Seller of Mobile Phones
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Samsung Electronics Co. topped Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc. as the world’s biggest seller of mobile phones for the third straight quarter, according to an industry study.
Samsung shipped 105.4 million phones in the three months ended September, 21 percent more than a year earlier, researcher IDC said in an e-mailed statement today. That gave it 23.7 percent of the market, compared with a 20.1 percent share a year earlier, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based research firm said. Samsung ended Espoo, Finland-based Nokia’s 14-year run as the global leader in the first quarter of this year.