TD Staff 
A Q3 2011 report prepared by market research and analysis firm Canalys shows HTC to have occupied the topmost position in the US smartphone market, by edging out Apple and Samsung. HTC is credited to have shipped in the USA 5.7 million smart phones under its own brand name, apart from an estimated 70,000 units under the T-Mobile brand, thereby becoming the leading vendor in the said market.
The survey has also found Samsung to have become the leading smartphone vendor in the world, by having achieved a shipment of 27.3 million smart phones under its own brand, and thus capturing 23% of the market share. It has now become the number one smartphone vendor in the Western Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, by putting itself ahead of Apple, RIM and Nokia respectively.
Apple has slipped into the third place in the US smartphone market, with its US smartphone shipments totaling 4.6 millions in the said quarter. This has also resulted in disappointment for consumers awaiting the launch of the iPhone 4S.
It may be mentioned here that the overall smartphone market across the world has grown 49% year-on-year, thus reaching 120.4 million units.
