Samsung to Outsell Apple in First Quarter, Despite iPhone’s Hot Sales - johnsonsniters

Orchard apple tree's iPhone 4S may be top sales firedog at AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, but the company is still expected to lag importantly behind rival Samsung in prototypical-quarter smartphone sales. Samsung will sell an estimated 41 meg units this stern, compared with 32.6 million for Apple and 12.6 million units for Nokia, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley.

Just Apple's smartphone numbers pool are currently coming up roses in the U.S. According to Walkley, "the iPhone continues to extend its market divvy up gains … [in] fact, we believe iPhones are outselling all other smartphones combined at Dash and AT&T and selling at roughly equal volume to all Android smartphones at Verizon."

Tongued of equal intensity, Walkley writes "cumulative Mechanical man smartphones may have represented over 50 percentage of total smartphone sales at Verizon for the first meter since the iPhone 4S found." That's a point glossed over aside several other sites focusing along the iPhone 4S triple-retail merchant sales rankings. "In fact, our checks indicated sales of the iPhone 4S at Verizon were not as strong in terms of total smartphone portion at AT&ere;T and Sprint," continues Walkley, noting that this was probably because of LTE promotions at Verizon and the iPhone 4's relatively recent set in motion on Verizon in February 2011.

Withal, Walkley notes that "despite the LTE promotions at Verizon, the iPhone 4S remained by far the top-selling smartphone at Verizon on an individual SKU basis."

For ranking wonks, Walkley writes: "Uppermost-marketing models included the iPhone 4S at AT&T/Verizon/Dash, the Samsung Galaxy S II at AT&T/Sprint/T-Waterborne, the Motorola Droid RAZR (MAXX) and Samsung Droid Nexus at Verizon, the Samsung Galaxy Note at AT&T, and the HTC Amaze and Samsung Galax S Blaze at T-Mobile."

Matt Peckham writes for TIME and PCWorld. You rear end find out him on Twitter, Facebook, OR Google+.

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