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November 14, 2012 01:43 pm GMT

Gartner: Samsung Widens Lead Over Apple In Smartphones In Q3, Overall Sales Of Mobile Handsets Down 3%

Samsung-Expands-the-GALAXY-S-III-Range-with_3Gartner has this morning published its numbers for how the mobile handset industry performed in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure from the wider economic downturn, and the gradual move away from cheaper, low end feature devices: overall sales of 428 million units for the quarter are 3% down on the same quarter last year. But smartphones continue to outshine that by quite a lot: they are up by 47% to 169 milion units. In other words, smartphones accounted for about 40% of al mobile device sales in Q3.

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