Reports are saying that Samsung has sold more than 20 million smartphones in Q3 of this year, nudging Apple out of the top spot for the first time since the original iPhone was released. Tuesday, Apple announced that September quarter sales of the iPhone peaked at 17.1 million, 3 million short of analyst expectations. According to The Wall Street Journal’s anonymous source, Sammy banged out 20 million units in one quarter, just under 3 million more than Apple had reported.
Nokia shipped 16.8 million smartphones in the same quarter, down 38% from 27.1 million from a year earlier. Although Samsung has not officially revealed Q3 shipment figures, reports are saying that they have taken the title of #1 smartphone vendor by volume in the third quarter of 2011. We may never see an official Q3 report from Samsung as they have stopped reporting sales figures unless a milestone in achieved. With the upcoming release of the Galaxy Nexus, we only expect these figures to increase.
[via WSJ]