For a brief moment at the end of last year, Apple and Samsung shared the title of the world's biggest smartphone maker, with each shipping somewhere around 74 million devices in Q4. The first three months of 2015 have marked a return to prior form as Apple's total came down to 61 million while Samsung's, according to Strategy Analytics estimates, has risen beyond the 80 million mark again. But it's not all great news for the Korean company: while Apple's high volume is matched by a consistently high average selling price, the growth for Samsung has come from its less profitable mid-range and low-end devices like the Galaxy A, E, and J series.
With an estimated 83 million smartphones shipped in Q1 2015, Samsung owns a comfortable lead in...
Samsung is once again the world's biggest smartphone vendor, but its profits haven't recovered
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