Samsung dominated smartphone shipments in 2014

20 January, 2015
Samsung remained the leader in smartphone shipments, but saw its lead reduced.

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  • 21 Jan 2015

AnonD-338467, 21 Jan 2015All Samsung haters, including so-called data analysts, said... moreYou are talking about percent, thats the problem with your comment. looking the percent doesnt tell you how much money samsung lost last year.

Its just like with Nokia, they sold tens of millions phones and from outside everything looked good, except the sales turned towards lowend phones and they didnt make much money anymore even when they sold tens of millions phones. And i guess you know where Nokia is now?

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    • Anonymous
    • ttw
    • 21 Jan 2015

    I think Samsung and apple lose more market share than expected. There are better phones are in the market in very cheap prices. And do not think expensive phones are premium . For example iphone 6 has just $230 BOM or actual cost of parts or hardware is much less than Samsung , lg Sony , htc and Xiaomi.

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      • AnonD-338467
      • Ki}
      • 21 Jan 2015

      All Samsung haters, including so-called data analysts, said Samsung cellphones market share slump badly with the bad sales of Galaxy S5. Now it look like Samsung mobile 2014 sales only less than 5% different from 2013.

      Eat your heart out, all Samsung haters.

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        • Anonymous
        • s5j
        • 21 Jan 2015

        AnonD-329938, 21 Jan 2015the point of iOS is just simple, its closed source and no c... moreThank you. Well said.

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          • Kaimu
          • 9xj
          • 21 Jan 2015

          iPhone is King, 21 Jan 2015Hahahaaa. Multitask as in showing a few miserable widget... moreThere goes a typical iFan who has touched a note.

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            • Anonymous
            • s5j
            • 21 Jan 2015

            Anonymous, 21 Jan 2015"poor game optimatization" and who's fault is ... moreNo. A company makes a OS and optimises for few devices made by guess who, the same company, of coure its easy. The competition makes many more devices with even better spec and feature at even lower prices. Although its harder for phone makers to optimise every bit of it, but the superior hardware and available choices compensate it all. We consumers love choices and competition. We are sick of being dictated by someone,anyone. You get it? Sorry and we are not students.

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              • AnonD-329938
              • J8M
              • 21 Jan 2015

              Anonymous, 21 Jan 2015"poor game optimatization" and who's fault is ... morethe point of iOS is just simple, its closed source and no custom roms ! and only Apple uses it but in Android world we got: TouchWiz, Sense, Optimus UI, MIUI, CyanogenMod, OmniRom, LiquidSmooth and other AOSP based roms and OEM`s Framework based roms ! thats only problem, if all would take pure android and optimize a little, and don`t put a bloatware and don`t stick framework base there :D it would be just as smooth as iOS is ! thats it :D and iPhone 4s lags in menu and how gta would run smoother on iOS 8? :D :D cmon iPhones are not beasts of future and today :) just marketing garbage :P

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                • iPhone is King
                • PGX
                • 21 Jan 2015

                Not just android!

                The hardware specs of Android is also to blame!

                People are sold to high core numbers / high ram numbers / high ghz numbers.. without knowing it in greater details.

                And come out with arguments like MY HTC M7 is faster! because it has "quad core , RAM HIGH and Ghz.." *facepalm*

                Its not true! You can proof this if you go study the chips more!

                So fact is android is not optimised + a weak high number chipset = poor performance.

                So thats why there is no point getting an expensive android, just stick with Xiaomi. As that is what android are good for: Cheap.

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                  • AnonD-1825
                  • swH
                  • 21 Jan 2015

                  AnonD-354047, 21 Jan 2015do not blame everything on android becouse main problem is ... moreMain problem is definately android, the one who try to denide this simple fact is just stupid

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                    • Anonymous
                    • Scq
                    • 21 Jan 2015

                    AnonD-354047, 21 Jan 2015do not blame everything on android becouse main problem is ... more"poor game optimatization"

                    and who's fault is that? GOOGLE! its called fragmentation. You guys would get these games after 10 years if devs would optimize it for every different android hardware, its impossible. Thats the beauty of íOS devices they run everything perfectly because its so easy to optimize for iOS devices.

                    You are just giving excuses (like all you android users), this just proves that numbers on paper doesnt mean anything if it cant perform in real life.

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                      • AnonD-354047
                      • 39m
                      • 21 Jan 2015

                      Anonymous, 21 Jan 2015Finally a gameplay video where all the devices are smooth ;... moredo not blame everything on android becouse main problem is poor UI or/and poor game optimatization

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Scq
                        • 21 Jan 2015

                        Finally a gameplay video where all the devices are smooth ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgngxX8w_co

                        Even iPhone 4S runs gta san andreas better than any android flagship devices, just wow!!! that's some crazy optimization and shows how poor android optimization is.

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                          • thenerd
                          • Nhh
                          • 21 Jan 2015

                          iPhone is King, 21 Jan 2015Hahahaaa. Multitask as in showing a few miserable widget... moreThe chip is tops no arguments there, but it does not change the fact that iOS cannot multitask more than Android, or rather TouchWiz Android......

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                            • AnonD-354047
                            • 39m
                            • 21 Jan 2015

                            iPhone is King, 21 Jan 2015Hahahaaa. Multitask as in showing a few miserable widget... morei see we have another Apple vs Android fight.

                            yes Apple works better becouse they change alittle to their specs and iOS and thats why they falling behind other smartphone makers, but problem with android is UI optimatizaton android in pure from is very fast, but UI that each smartphone adds can slow down or couses Android to lag if its not done propetly

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                              • AnonD-354537
                              • Nks
                              • 21 Jan 2015

                              ok samsung still on the top but it is not doing well year by year its dosnt mean that they are dying as you know samsung is not just a smartphones company they have many other successful product and still # 1 selling for this products that they can make many researches and marketing to sell their products including their smartphones , so samsung will never die

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                                • PGX
                                • 21 Jan 2015

                                AnonD-342102, 21 Jan 2015wait, Phone 6/6+ only beat note 4 in single core performanc... moreHahahaaa.

                                Multitask as in showing a few miserable widgets and 2 app per screen?

                                You call that intensive so that you need octa core?

                                Even Nexus 9 . running the dual core have no such excuse.

                                Fact is the cpu in ur note 4 is crap compared to A8 chip.

                                And people like you relying on paper specs cannot see it... even when the performance is in front of your eyes.. you still keep denying.

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                                  • thenerd
                                  • Nhh
                                  • 21 Jan 2015

                                  Anonymous, 21 Jan 2015So where you need all that power in multitasking? :) Im ... morelol, multitask on an iPhone......

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • Scq
                                    • 21 Jan 2015

                                    AnonD-342102, 21 Jan 2015wait, Phone 6/6+ only beat note 4 in single core performanc... moreSo where you need all that power in multitasking? :)

                                    Im using iPad and iPhone and they both multitasking great and the performance is out of this world, no matter what i do those devices are always fast and smooth. (cant say same thing about android devices)

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                                      • AnonD-342102
                                      • P%%
                                      • 21 Jan 2015

                                      iPhone is King, 21 Jan 2015How can iPhone 6 be midrange... when its benchmark performa... morewait, Phone 6/6+ only beat note 4 in single core performance. 31k for iPhone, 30k for Note 4. But in multicore, Note 4 destroy iPhone.
                                      This is what we say multitask. So it means Note 4 can do a lot multitask.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • Scq
                                        • 21 Jan 2015

                                        Anonymous, 21 Jan 2015IPhone 6/6 plus are barely mid-range, period. Even Chinese ... moreDo you have something to back this up? im sure you dont, but youtube is full of speed test videos which prove how wrong you are.