Samsung in the II quarter of 2014 was the largest supplier of LTE-smartphone, ahead of this indicator: Apple. Analysts Strategy Analytics estimated that during this time the South Korean vendor sold 28.6 million smartphones to support LTE vs. sold 28.3 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c.
Thus, Samsung was able to circumvent Apple, which has led the market in the previous quarter with a score of 40.5% and 32.7 million smartphones. And now the American giant computer electronics took only 31.9% of the market. In third place with a large backlog of Samsung and Apple settled by LG, which received 5.2% of the smartphone market with support for LTE-networks and shutting the top three.
Analysts attribute the success of Samsung's sales of its flagship device Galaxy S5 and a wider portfolio of LTE-models. iPhone 5s and iPhone5c, released a year ago, just could not resist the pressure of the Korean company.
According to analysts ABI Research, in 2014 the worldwide supply of LTE-phones reached 482 million shares against 150 million a year earlier. By the end of 2019 this figure will increase to 1.34 billion units, experts predict.