Samsung LifeLIVE

Sometimes barriers like distance keep people from being part of experiences that no one wants to miss. So we decided to help two people come together in a completely new way to let them share one of life’s most profound moments. Welcome to the world’s first live virtual reality birth using the Samsung Gear VR

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The Two-Horse Smartphone Race

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577362140799316460.html

Apple, Samsung Use Different Playbooks in Battle for Supremacy;
For Rivals, It's Specialty vs. Scale

Apple’s rank in mobile phone profitability and revenues

http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/03/first-apples-rank-in-mobile-phone-profitability-and-revenues/

Apple retained its top rank in profitability and regained the top spot in mobile phone revenues.

The relative shares of revenues and profits are shown below:

Individually, Apple’s share of units, revenues and profits is chronicled below:

Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share.

Apple and Samsung combined for about 91% of profits with RIM third at 3.7%, HTC fourth at 3.0% and Nokia last at 1.8% of a $15 billion total for the quarter.

In terms of revenues, Apple had 39% to Samsung’s 25%. Third was Nokia with 12.6% and fourth RIM at 8%. HTC only managed 5.5%, Motorola 4%, LG 3.3% and Sony Ericsson 2.7%.