Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top smartphone maker, sold 50.5 million smartphones in the second quarter, stretching its lead over rival Apple Inc, a report by research firm StrategyAnalytics showed.
Samsung took 34.6 percent of the global smartphone market, while Apple, which suffered a 26 percent sequential plunge in smartphone sales, had 17.8 percent of the market after selling 26 million iPhones in the June quarter, the report said.
Nokia took the third spot with a 7.0 percent market share, selling 10.2 million smartphones.
Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday
its net profit swelled to 5.2 trillion won ($4.5 billion) in the April-June quarter, a 48 percent jump from a year earlier.
Meanwhile, Apple posted
disappointing numbers in the continued absence of a new iPhone model.
Edited by NDTV Staff from original story by Reuters