SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) - According to the report, released this Friday by a market research institute in the United States, Strategy Analytics, Samsung Electronics held 33.1 percent global market share of smartphones in the period from April to June, unchanged quarterly comparison.
This is the second highest since the third quarter of last year, when the figure reached 33.9 percent.
In the second quarter, the world's largest maker of smartphones sold 76 million units, breaking the quarterly record in the first quarter, when sales totaled 69.4 million.
His U.S. rival, Apple Inc. saw its market share decline from 17.9 to 13.6 percent and sales of 37.4 to 31, 200,000 units in the second quarter, placing in second place in terms global sales volume.
Strategy Analytics said that Samsung sold more than double Apple smartphones in the second quarter, attributing the increase in sales to the popularity of the Galaxy S4.
