Smartphones Finally Surpass the Feature Phone

IDC, the research firm, issued a report that found that more than half of cellphone shipments in the first quarter were smartphones.

Manufacturers shipped 418.6 million cellphones, 216.2 million of which were smartphones, says IDC. Samsung, the top maker of smartphones, shipped 70.7 million, commanding 32.7 percent of the market in the first quarter. Apple was in second place with 37.4 million iPhones sold and 17.3 percent of the market. LG was in a distant third with 10.3 million smartphones, for 4.8 percent of the market.