According to a survey on share of domestic mobile phone shipments in 2012 conducted by IDC Japan, Apple has become the first position.
Total shipments in 2012, combined smartphones and traditional mobile phones (feature phones), is 40.4 million units (up 6.4% year-on-year). It had not exceeded the size of 40 million units since 2008.
Apple (23.3%) is the top, raised the ranking from the 3rd-position of the previous year, followed by Fujitsu (18.0%), Sharp (14.0%), Sony (8.4%), Kyocera (8.0%).
Number of shipments of smartphone in 2012 was 28.48 million (+42.1% year-on-year), 70.5% of the total mobile phone.
