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Is Samsung or Apple Biggest in Handsets?

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    FBN's Shibani Joshi on who has the lead in the handset market.

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You're tied let's go to apple now I believe it or not apple is no longer the clear cut king of the Smartphone world anymore Shibani Joshi knows it all this challenging -- running -- -- gas and imagine -- -- in a world where apple is indicating everything it's hard to imagine a world where apple doesn't dominate everything we know it's a leader in terms of market caps in this country.

A leader in terms of innovation and marketing but shockingly and -- new statistics from IDC show.

The big company does not -- the king's crown winning cons to Smartphones new data out showing.

-- Samsung actually is a dominant player in this space shipping 42 point two million Smartphones.

Giving it a share of about 29% -- -- seeing Apple's market share of 24 point 2%.

With even more staggering is that -- wrote that Samsung has seen over apple.

He -- a year outlook a year of the year statistics Samsung's market share in the Smartphone arena has grown 267%.

From a year ago that's better than -- 88%.

Now the disagreement over the numbers in the real and there there is disagreement over the numbers -- -- reason is is because Samsung doesn't report its numbers in the same way that apple does.

Even still it's very very clear that there's -- neck and neck race in this arena and that even puts more pressure on the two as they head to court.

-- two of them -- just suing their faces off basically over patent infringement right.

It should then suing -- -- each other in at least fifty different filings in ten different countries.

Though the two of them and their CEOs have to face -- face to face.

In court later on this -- -- pay attention and that but certainly there's a lot at stake when it comes to selling summer months these days thank you should.