In July Apple beat Nokia in the global smartphone unit lead as a manufacturer this year. And now Digitimes estimated new numbers for Apple that almost 84.6 million iphones will be sold by the end of this year 2011. Which is way over Nokia’s estimation. Last year Nokia sold almost the double the amount of smart phones than Apple.
Apple’s smartphone shipments are projected to top 86.4 million units in 2011, up 82% from 47.5 million units in 2010. In contrast, Nokia’s smartphone shipments in 2011 will decline to 74.4 million units from over 100 million in 2010, said Luke Lin, analyst for Digitimes Research.
Just because it almost doubled its unit shipment, doesn’t mean it is game over for Apple, however. Android makers Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei and ZTE all showed better percentage gains though they shipped relatively few smartphones in 2010.