Samsung accounted for 32.6 percent of global smartphone shipments in that period, compared with 16.9 percent for Apple, according to IDC, a research firm.
Its margins on iPhones are so good that Asymco, a market-research firm, reckons the company accounted for 60% of the total profits made by the mobile-phone industry in the third quarter of 2012, even though it accounted for just 16% of phone shipments during that period.But Apple now finds itself competing with rivals that have radically different ways of making money.
Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55percentt share of all shipments during the period.
Shipment value over the period broke the one-billion-US-dollar mark for the first time to 1.46 billion dollars, it added.
The iPhone accounted for 13.2 percent of smartphone shipments in that same period, while Samsung's share was 30.4 percent, IDC estimated.
Over all, China is the largest smartphone market in the world, accounting for one-third of worldwide shipments of smartphones in the second quarter; the United States is in second place, accounting for about 14 percent of shipments in the same period, according to Canalys.
That compares with 7.4 million shipments in the same period of 2012.
iPhone sales showed a 29.5percentt increase between Q1 2012 and Q1 2013, while iPads had just over 48percentt growth in shipments during the same period.
But in the same period, the Gartner shipment data goes from around 10% to over 50%.
Mean kinetic temperature for each shipment was calculated over the period of shipment using the batch-specific interval temperature measurements.
Worldwide shipments of PCs fell 0.2 percent during the fourth quarter from the year-earlier period, while PC shipments in the United States fell 5 percent for all of 2011, the worst showing since 2001, according to the International Data Corporation.
