IDC notes that Q1 2013 was the first quarter ever when more smartphones shipped than feature phones, with Samsung accelerating away from second-placed Apple – 70.7m and 37.4m smartphone shipments respectively. Samsung was up 60.7% year-on-year, while Apple rose by just 6.6%. Kantar Worldpanel Comtech breaks down sales figures by OS and country to show how Android is doing. 58.4% smartphone market share in the US, 73.6% in Germany, 69.4% in China and a startling 93.5% in Spain for Google’s OS.
Samsung and Android still tops for smartphone shipments
