Poll: Galaxy S III helps Samsung increase lead over Apple

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Tarmo Virki for Reuters:

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd increased its lead over Apple Inc and Nokia Oyj in the global cellphone market in the second quarter, helped by strong demand and large marketing campaigns for its latest flagship model, the Galaxy S III, according to a Reuters poll.

Samsung and Apple have been neck-and-neck for several quarters in the battle to be the largest smartphone vendor, but the May launch of the new Samsung model created a clear gap between the two, the poll of 41 analysts showed.

Of course, the poll is of analysts, whose numbers may be wildly off, so take it all with a grain of salt. Apple’s offerings are getting long in the tooth, even though they’re selling very strongly, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens later this year, ostensibly when Apple introduces a new iPhone model.



  • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

    Very true Peter. A poll of analysts is a shaky metric. Show me the numbers.

    Agreed on the iPhone 4S being long in the tooth. I wish they would come out at the same time.

  • imthedude

    One against many. Do they count the ones given away with a free haircut at Supercuts?

    • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

      Doubt they are giving away S3′s but if someone bought some and decided to give them away…why not? A sale is a sale.

  • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

    Does this poll have any effect upon actual sales?

  • http://twitter.com/Saxon912 Saxon912

    As a completely non empirical and statistically insignificant observation- have been in London for the last week : iPhones = gazillion / Android= occasional sad geek anorak flaunting it and one or two samsungs dressed up to look like iPhones