HELSINKI (Reuters) - demand for smartphones has given new impetus to volumes of market of global cellular phone in January-March and makes iPhone vendor Apple Inc. a rare winner the market research firms said Friday.
IDC has experienced growth in January-March by 20 per cent market, also helped strong gains by small suppliers as the manufacturers of telephone plus large three - Nokia Oyj, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and LG Electronics Inc. - lost market share.
Apple iPhone sales has more than doubled since last year, supported by strong sales on Verizon Wireless and carrier additional also treats rises to 5% of market share.
"The iPhone sold once more particularly well developed economic regions of the world, such as North America and Western Europe," said IDC.
Apple is now within striking distance of LG, which had a 6.6 per cent market share in the quarter. Nokia share fell to 29% from 35% a year ago while Samsung has slipped to 19 percent, said IDC.
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. has benefited from the rise of the smartphone in the quarter, winning market share, but warned late Thursday its quarterly sales miss earlier forecasts.
Canadian group is in a transition period, because it revamped its product range and launches its first Tablet PC.
Separately, Strategy Analytics estimated combined shipments increased by 17% a year, he led by smartphone surging demand in the mature regions and models more and more popular with multiple SIM cards in emerging markets.
"In the first quarter of 2011 has been marked by supply chain disruptions related to the tragedy of earthquake by the constraints of the current soft component and the Japan in areas such as touch screens""memory and cameras,", said Neil Mawston, analyst at the analytical strategy.
Mawston said component shortage would continue at least the next six to nine months, causing higher prices of inputs, but the operational challenges or limited volumes of this would be minor for most manufacturers.
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