Apple first became # 1 mobile phone supplier in the US

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, mobile phone shipments to the United States in the fourth quarter of 2012 reached 52 million units, with Apple taking the lead for the first time, becoming the number one supplier and capturing 34 percent of the total market.

In this competition, the company was ahead of Samsung: from the Strategy Analytics report it follows that Apple sold 17.7 million iPhones for the quarter. In second place is Samsung, with a figure of 16.8 million units sold, in third place is LG, with 4.7 million over the same period.

Note that this is not about smartphones, but about phones - this is the area in which Samsung has been a leader in the US for five years. In this quarter, Apple owns a little more than every third phone sold, and this is a rather unexpected fact - after all, Samsung and LG, unlike Apple, have a much wider range of phones and low-cost smartphones.
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The executive director of the agency adds that Samsung is likely to regain its leadership in 2013, when the Galaxy S4 will appear on the market, about which new rumors continually appear.

The original press release is available here .