Samsung, Apple Topped Connected Devices Shipments

According to IDC, smart connected device shipments went up 29.1% in 2012. Smart connected devices include smartphones, tablets, desktop PC, notebooks, netbooks, and ultrabooks. Unsurprisingly, 60% of the 1.2 billion units shipped last year were smartphones.

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As mentioned, over 1.2 billion units of smart connected devices were shipped last year, marking a 29.1% increase from 2011. Tablets and smartphones drove the boost by carving out 70% percent of the total market share, while PCs and notebook/netbook/ultrabook shipments sank by 4.1 and 3.4 percent, respectively. Sammy came out on top with smart connected devices in 2012 as a whole with a 20.8% market share, beating Apple by 2.6 percent. That would be a total of 250 million units shipped for Samsung and 218.7 million units shipped for Apple. Samsung managed to ship the most number of smartphones while Apple was the leader in tablet shipments.

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Lenovo finished in third place with a 6.5% marketshare, thanks to its notebook sales, while HP and Dell ranked 4th and 5th with 4.8% and 3.2%, respectively. According to IDC, Apple could have been a distant runner-up to Samsung but thanks to the high demand for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini that the Cupertino company managed to lessen the gap.

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