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Smartphone Sales Statistics: 100 Million In Q1 2011

We spotted this stat today:

"Apple sold 18.7 million iPhones in the quarter, giving it an 18.7 percent share of the market, which happened to total almost exactly 100 million devices. That put Apple within 6 million units of first place Nokia, which grew only 12.6 percent over the year ago quarter, dropping its leading share of the smartphone market from 38.8 percent to just 24.3 percent."

We have written about mobile handset statistics before.

Statistics Source: Apple Insider

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