More Than 700 Million Smartphones Shipped in 2012 as Apple, Samsung Dominate

Fried, Ina. "More Than 700 Million Smartphones Shipped in 2012 as Apple, Samsung Dominate." The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2013.  

From the article: "A record 700 million smartphones were shipped in 2012, with more than half of those coming from industry leaders Samsung and Apple.

Samsung shipped an estimated 213 million smartphones — roughly 30 percent of the market — according toStrategy Analytics.

Apple, meanwhile, saw its shipments rise 46 percent to 135.8 million, giving the company about the same 19 percent of the market it had a year earlier." Read more