Gartner: phone market fell, Huawei № 3, and 52% of smartphone - Samsung and Apple

Research agency Gartner has published the results in 2012 for the world of mobile phones. Among these data have several notable moments. General delivery vehicles for the year amounted to 1.75 billion units, up 1.7% from a year earlier. In this case, the smartphone market has grown and reached in the fourth quarter of 207.7 million units, 38.3% more than in the same period of 2011. But the demand for simple phones were low and had a negative trend. In the fourth quarter, they had sold 264.4 million, up 19.3% from a year earlier. In 2013, the trend will continue, with an overall forecast of supply to final consumers about 1 billion smartphones, the entire mobile phone market will be about 1.9 billion devices. 



There were no surprises in the distribution of shares of the smartphone market. Leaders Samsung and Apple. If, however, for the fourth quarter of 2011, their total deliveries were 46.4% of all bemsya, in 2012 - already 52%. In this case, one can not say that some company holds the third largest, it claims a group of companies. But mathematically - is Huawei. For the first time a Chinese manufacturer of mobile technology rises so high. In this impressive growth in supply is not so great, continue to increase the volume and market leaders - Samsung at 85.3% for the quarter, Apple modest - 22.6%. Some pressure on the leaders to create Sony and Nokia. In the last of them to be considered a successful series of advanced phones Asha, will allow the company to improve somewhat in the fourth quarter sales last year. At the same time, the company set a new anti-record, taking only 18% of the mobile phone market.