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Smartphones top sellers

SMARTPHONES have made up the majority of mobile phone sales worldwide for the first time. Some 225 million smartphones were sold globally between April and June, or 51.8 per cent of all mobiles sold in that quarter, research firm Gartner said.

It is the first time smartphone sales exceeded those of feature phones - the more basic models that have limited or no access to the internet and applications. Android continued to increase its lead in the operating service market taking a 79 per cent in the second quarter, followed by iOS - which operates on iPhone - with 14.2 per cent. The figures show Samsung sold 71.3 million smartphones in the quarter, a market share of 31.7 per cent, followed by Apple at 31.8 million units or 14.2 per cent of market share and LG Electronics with 11.4 million units or 5.1 per cent.