iPhone Outsold Samsung Premium Handsets 1.7 to 1, Analyst Claims

According to a Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt’s calculation, Apple outsold Samsung’s Galaxy S line of smartphones running Android, including the two generation of Galaxy Note when compared to iPhone 4, 4S and 5.

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McCourt writes:

We estimate Apple has sold approximately 219 million cumulative iPhone 4, 4S and 5 devices (which excludes sales of the original iPhone, iPhone 3G and 3GS) since the launch of the iPhone 4 in June 2010 vs. 131 million for Samsung’s Galaxy Series S and Note smartphones since the launch of the Galaxy S also in June 2010.

Despite Samsung’s high-end smartphones being ‘tremendously successful’, the analyst estimates that the iPhone has extended its lead in volume shipments over Samsung in the past 12 months with nearly 100 million units.

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McCourt compiled the above graph using Samsung’s recent announcement that the company has sold more than 100 million Galaxy S Series smartphones. To compare the data with Apple’s, he used the Cupertino company’s opening weekend sales announcements assuming that about 66% of the quarterly reported iPhone units were for the newest generation and 17% for prior generation models. Also, for the fourth quarter McCourt used Raymond James’ own 48 million estimate for iPhone sales.

Long story short, one thing is certain: Despite Samsung retaining the most sought-after smartphone OEM title, its flagship devices just can’t catch up with the iPhone as we previously highlighted by putting the public number side-by-side. Our own research based on public numbers show that Samsung sold 10 million Galaxy Note I and 5 million Galaxy Note 2 devices, which sets the total Galaxy S line handsets to 115 million.

The picture gets fuzzy and the quantity of sales favor Samsung, however, when we include all the handsets the manufacturer has for sale.

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