Samsung overtakes Nokia as top mobile handset maker

May 16, 2012 21:49

Korean electronics giant Samsung has dethroned Finnish major Nokia as the top mobile handset maker with sales of 86.6 million units in 2011, research firm Gartner has said.

Samsung, with a sales growth of 25.9 per cent, had a market share of 20.7 per cent in January-March 2012 quarter, while Nokia (with 83.2 million units sold) had a share of 19.8 per cent in the same period, Gartner said in a statement.

Nokia's mobile handset sales decreased 22.7 per cent from the first quarter of 2011.

Worldwide sales of mobile phones dipped two per cent to 419.1 million units in first quarter of 2012, the first time since second quarter of 2009 when the market exhibited a decline.

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