From DailyTech: Mobile sales tracking firm Counterpoint Research's latest estimates of U.S. smartphone sales in Q3 2013 bring few surprises as the industry trends we've seen playing out for the last year or so continued to run their course.
Nokia Oyj.'s (HEX:NOK1V) devices unit -- a division which Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) takes ownership of in Q4 -- continued its strong growth. The Windows Phone maker seized 4.1 percent of the U.S. market with its colorful Lumia lineup, which is good enough for fourth place. The phonemaker roughly tripled its Q2 2013 sales share, which had been at 1.4 percent.
Third place LG Electronics, Inc. (KSC:066570), meanwhile, continued its quiet, unheralded sales success in the U.S. and global markets, taking 8.6 percent of sales. That was down slightly from Q2 2013; the number indicate that Nokia appears to be the main party to cannibalized a bit of the South Korean OEM's sales.
In fifth place was Motorola Mobility, with 3.7 percent of sales. The Google Inc. (GOOG) first-party Android phonemaker hasn't experienced its best year in the U.S. sales-wise, selling roughly half as many units as it did the year before. But in Q3 it appeared that the losses had stabilized, with Motorola selling a fraction more than the 3.6 percent of sales it command in Q2 2013.
In a rough tie for first place were Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) and Apple, Inc. (AAPL) -- something that should come as no surprise to tech observers. In Q2 Samsung was narrowly ahead, in Q3 the script was flipped with Apple being ahead by an even narrow margin. Apple commanded 33.7 percent of sales; Samsung won 33.6 percent of them. Together the pair controlled two thirds of smartphone sales in the U.S.
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