{"id":738977,"date":"2013-02-21T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=339567"},"modified":"2013-02-21T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:45:40","slug":"samsung-smart-device-shipments-surged-by-an-astonishing-119-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/738977","title":{"rendered":"Samsung \u2018smart device\u2019 shipments surged by an astonishing 119% in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/samsung-smart-device-shipments-339567\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"479\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/idc-device-shipments.png?w=650&#038;h=479&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C479\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Smart Device Shipments\" title=\"IDC Smart Device Shipments\" \/><\/a><\/center>In case you needed any more evidence that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/14\/2012-best-worst-companies-247388\/\">2012 was the Year of Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>), consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23958513\">the latest research from IDC<\/a> showing that shipments of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a>\u00a0\"smart devices\" \u2014 which IDC defines as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers \u2014 totaled 250 million units in 2012, an increase of over 119% from the 114 million devices the company shipped in 2011. This impressive growth vaulted Samsung ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) \u2014 which shipped an estimated 219 million smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops on the year \u2014 and made the South Korean electronics manufacturer the world's leader in smart device shipments.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/samsung-smart-device-shipments-339567\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/-DIB5t4LoJI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you needed any more evidence that 2012 was the Year of Samsung (005930), consider the latest research from IDC showing that shipments of\u00a0Samsung\u00a0&#8220;smart devices&#8221; \u2014 which IDC defines as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers \u2014 totaled 250 million units in 2012, an increase of over 119% from the 114 million devices the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36eZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}