Samsung isn’t doing well in its international patent infringement battle against Apple, but the South Korean electronics manufacturer may have something else to smile about: Samsung has dethroned Apple as the world’s largest smartphone company by volume of units sold, according to a preliminary report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.Samsung shipped 20 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, according to the Journal’s sources, compared to Apple’s 17.07 million fourth quarter sales. As Apple Insider points out, that’s not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison (pun unintended), as shipments, of course, aren’t the same thing as sales.
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