Samsung overtook Apple to turn the world's greatest shipper of smartphones between July and September.
Research from Strategy Analytics showed that Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the three-month period, compared with 17.1 million from Apple and 16.8 million from Nokia.
The consultancy mentioned Apple's expansion was hindered by customers watchful is to launch of the new iPhone 4S.
Apple's number 4 container in complete handsets was taken by China's ZTE.
Nokia was the tip handset shipper with a 27.3% marketplace share, followed by Samsung with 22.6% and LG with 5.4%.
ZTE took 4.7%, pulling Apple in to fifth place with 4.4%.
The inform came before long after the let go of Samsung's third-quarter results, that showed increase descending 23% as burly expansion in its mobile phone business was overshadowed by a bad opening in the mental recall fragment arm.
Handset increase more than doubled to 2.52tn won ($2.3bn; 1.4bn) on burly sales from its Milky Way smartphones.
"Samsung's way up has been driven by a merge of cultured hardware designs, renouned Android services, unforgettable sub-brands and endless universal distribution," mentioned Alex Spektor from Strategy Analytics.
"Samsung has demonstrated that it is possible, at least in the partial term, to tell apart and blossom by using the Android ecosystem."
A complete of 117 million smartphones were shipped in the third quarter, up 44% from the same time final year.
Nokia's marketplace share for smartphones fell from 33% in the third entertain of 2010 to to 14% this time round.
"The passing from one to another from Symbian to Microsoft as Nokia's principal smartphone stage has evidently been a really severe routine this year," mentioned Tom Kang from Strategy Analytics.
"The new launch of the new Microsoft Lumia portfolio has helped to elevate Nokia's profile."
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