iphone Japan's market share increased to 36.6%

"TechWeb Report" May 14 news, the current Apple in the Japanese mobile phone market share has now reached 36.6%. According to the Japanese market research company in Tokyo, MM study Cato Ltd., in the past year to March, Apple increased the iphone in Japan, its market share from 25.5% a year ago increased to 36.6%. In the past fiscal year, the California smartphone maker sold a total of 14.43 million iphones in Japan. In the past four years, Samsung Electronics has made great strides in the global scope. Now Apple is trying to recapture its users from rival Samsung Electronics. Apple signed an iphone sale agreement with China Mobile in January this year. Last September, Japan's largest wireless carrier, NTT Docomo Inc., began selling Apple iphones to rival rivals such as SoftBank. Overall, in the past year ending March, Japanese handset sales have grown by 4.3% to 37.7 million. After Apple, Sharp gained 13% per cent of the market in Japan, 5.14 million handsets, and Sony gained 12.3% in Japan, selling 4.84 million handsets, and Samsung ranked sixth in Japan, with a market share of 5.7%.