“I’ll keep my bet made at the beginning of the year: one million smartphones will be sold in Romania in 2012.”
He added Samsung would end the year with an over 50% market share. “At least one in two smartphones sold here is a Samsung.”
The share of smartphones in the total sales of cell phones was 20% in midyear, but is expected to go up by winter, the peak shopping season.
“We expect the smartphone share in total sales to go up to 30% in December,” Manea said.
Sales of smartphones in Romania stood at about 600,000 units last year, which puts the market growth about some 70% this year, according to Samsung estimates.
The most popular smartphone models are Apple’s iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S3, the third generation of the Galaxy S series launched on the local market in May.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)