Samsung regains top smartphone sales spot from Apple in Q1 2013

28 May, 2013
The Korean company shipped $23.62 billion worth of phones, compared to Apple's $22.9 billion.

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  • Anonymous
  • wu4
  • 28 May 2013

What's up with the LG comments. Google is moving away bec. clearly LG did not deliver, people know of the crappy batt life and camera in the N4 and tons of other issues, also the high price outside playstore.
I have N4 but I can't boast about it because people disgust of the name LG like it reminds them of a crappy appliance which is also true with LG phones.

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    • Anonymous
    • 0ET
    • 28 May 2013

    [deleted post]And the LAST one to update their phones. If ever...

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      • Anonymous
      • wu4
      • 28 May 2013

      I'm sure this is going to change in the end of this year with the upcoming Apple releases, the new ipad mini and low cost iphones.
      Google has to sell new nexus line in order to compete. Keep asus and samsung for tablets and move to sony for phones with keylime pie OS.

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        • AnonD-141370
        • Sgv
        • 28 May 2013

        The King reigns supreme.
        Take a bow Samsung!

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          • AnonD-58540
          • GQc
          • 28 May 2013

          AnonD-100960, 28 May 2013being a samsung owner, this was obvious that they would reg... moreused to have n s3 and beleive methe hype sammy created was nt worth it...now whats the price of s 3 ??? Here in india its around 22k or say approx $425. Had many issues with phone. Battery sucked, body was pathetic, screen loooked like hell in sunlight, started facing lag and hanging issues( i had sm gud apps and games , may b dat cud b the reason but still), camera was avg nt good and puked in low light....shud have taken note2 instead but wasted mymoney and sold it for a loss of 5000 rupees($120), which is a shame. Used lumia 720 and now it looks promising , no issues at all . The only thing lacks is fm radio ( hope msft provides an update for it), ram is low but fine run all games smoothly vidoout any stutter. Camera is gud and better then s3. Battery back up is best ( never seen such a gud stamina phone). Now lookin frwd to either nokia eos or 925. Im now in love vid windows. I need a gud phone with best hardware and best software and windows frm nokia is a big time thumbs up.....dunno who buys sammh phones...( seems cheap plastic and rubbi@h to me now) eve htc and sony and lg are working hard and we can clearly see their innovation...sammy will be dead within a year.....

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            • AnonD-58540
            • GQc
            • 28 May 2013

            hmmmm 3-4 more months and then bye bye samd@@g . Nokia will regain its top spot and htc and sony or god knows even lg will myt take the second...samdng will go at the bott

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              • optimus
              • N9@
              • 28 May 2013

              most people say lg is not popular on gsmarena because it does not get as much hits as the other brands like sony,htc,nokia but i always tell them hits does not mean sells sony,htc can't even come close to lg in teams of mobile revenue dispite the dislike by most people of lg phones lg is still flying high in third place that is how to kown a great brand not the over hyped and over rated brands that most people run after.

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                • CIO
                • nvG
                • 28 May 2013

                Anonymous, 28 May 2013HTC makes the best display. And motorola too. Lg just copie... moreOMG - HTC and Moto making displays? And LG copying Samsung's dispaly? Have U any idea what U just stated? Have U any idea, who are real screen producers in mobile world?

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                  • Anonymous
                  • LhP
                  • 28 May 2013

                  [deleted post]"dale" is a slang term for lets go

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                    • Anonymous
                    • LhP
                    • 28 May 2013

                    [deleted post]no, i didnt use google at all, its directly from translation software on my PC, nothing to do with wiki or anything like that.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • LhP
                      • 28 May 2013

                      AnonD-123175, 28 May 2013So you say that i am wrong so proof it or just do some sear... moreenglish "GO AHEAD!" = spanish "ADELANTE!"

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                        • AnonD-136521
                        • 39x
                        • 28 May 2013

                        The samsung revolution is well and truly upon us.....

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                          • AnonD-123175
                          • KIA
                          • 28 May 2013

                          Anonymous, 28 May 2013ermm, no DALE doesn't mean that at all mate! LOLSo you say that i am wrong so proof it or just do some search in GOOGLE.

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                            • AnonD-69898
                            • 2Aj
                            • 28 May 2013

                            Anonymous, 28 May 2013HTC makes the best display. And motorola too. Lg just copie... moreMany of the world's first are from LG not from samsung. . :-) so LG need not to copy others. . :-) LG is the real technology innovator. . :-)

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                              • Anonymous
                              • LhP
                              • 28 May 2013

                              AnonD-123175, 28 May 2013Hey bro "DALE" means GO A HEAD in spanish languag... moreermm, no DALE doesn't mean that at all mate! LOL

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                                • AnonD-123175
                                • 44r
                                • 28 May 2013

                                AnonD-55345, 28 May 2013Mr. Worldwide, I can see you are a die hard LG fanboy. You ... moreHey bro "DALE" means GO A HEAD in spanish language just like PITBULL rapper says DALE in his every song.
                                So thank you really to read my comment and understand my thoughts.

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                                  • Lakay
                                  • jmK
                                  • 28 May 2013

                                  rinku.s, 28 May 2013you are right bro. Samsung copy all what they find best fro... moreDo you know why Samsung regains the top martphone sales? Because he's a smart guy. Please don't hate him
                                  for that.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • 0ZU
                                    • 28 May 2013

                                    I would love to have apple , but i can't afford it , iphone 5 is 750$ in my country , and note 2 is 500$ , sorry but am going to samsung!

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                                      • Lakay
                                      • jmK
                                      • 28 May 2013

                                      Anonymous, 28 May 2013HTC makes the best display. And motorola too. Lg just copie... moreI have nothing to do with LG.He doe's not know how to make good smartphone.

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                                        • AnonD-100960
                                        • 3xq
                                        • 28 May 2013

                                        being a samsung owner, this was obvious that they would regain top spot, but in September the iPhone 5s/6 will be the top selling phone, and it will continue to go back and forth as each manufacturer offers different products in different half's of the year, so it is not really any surprise, the only surprise i read was about apple selling $7.1 Billion less products this year, that is a huge drop, but again no surprise because of apples saturation in the market and with recessions and all other outside factors taken into account, their market target audience will no doubt shrink. but it is clearly only a 2 horse race between the 2 giants currently.