Samsung shipped more phones than Nokia, Apple, LG combined

Samsung shipped a record 120.1 million phones last quarter, beating Nokia, Apple, and LG combined, Strategy Analytics said Tuesday. The quarter showed a 7 percent jump in overall global shipments from a year ago and gave Samsung a 29 percent slice of the mobile phone market. Strategy Analytics attributed the gain to strong demand for Samsung's Note 3 phablet and mass-market devices such as the Galaxy Y. In second place, Nokia bit off 15.5 percent of the worldwide mobile phone market, followed by Apple with 8 percent and LG with 4.4 percent.