Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market

New submitter landofcleve writes "When the writing is on the wall, you fight harder — or at least that's what we've seen from Apple in recent months. Now we know why: Samsung has reached a market share above Apple's for smartphone sales. 'Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter, taking 23.8 percent of the market ... Apple’s 17.1 million shipments, comprising 14.6 percent of the market, pushed the Cupertino, California-based company to second place. Nokia maintained its third position.'"

This is based on analysts guesses

[Linegod]

This is based on analysts guesses. Samsung didn't release any numbers.

Re:High-end models?

[Andy Dodd]

Quite a few - Samsung's hottest seller in late spring/early summer was the international variant of the Galaxy S II - a device which was undoubtebly above the iPhone 4 in all regards.

In fact, in some areas, it's still ahead of the iPhone 4S - the 4S has a nicer GPU but a weaker CPU, and still has a crappy 3.5" screen.

Re:High-end models?

[Idbar]

There is no question. Some Samsung models will come out to the market at a more affordable price than an iPhone. And while people in Slashdot screams that iPhones are cheap (which are not), there's still people in many places that cannot afford or will not pay for them.

So Samsung won't make as much money? who cares if they're putting many devices on the market at similar rates than the iPhone.

Re:High-end models?

[iluvcapra]

OLEDs have terrible color, its over-saturated and makes people think the image looks better in a subjective way. ((S)AM)OLED is to cellphones as glossy screens are to laptops. Do a Pepsi challenge with a iPhone or even an original Droid, versus a Galaxy Nexus in a dark room, versus watching the image on a proper screen.

Pentile doesn't help either with the blacks or contrasty images.