For a duration finale Dec. 31, Apple shipped 37 million phones, some-more than doubling a sales from a same duration a year ago. The Cupertino-based company’s marketplace share came in at 23.5%, up from 15.9% in a prior fourth quarter, according to marketplace viewer IDC.

Analysts at a organisation pronounced that notwithstanding a little shortcomings, a launch of iPhone 4S final Oct was a categorical reason at a back of Apple’s surge. “Although a iPhone 4S unhappy a little detractors by not in 4G LTE connectivity as well as a opposite shade size, direct was tall for a device.”

Q3 marketplace personality Samsung, that essentially manufactures phones powered by Google’s Android OS as well as Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7, shipped 36 million smartphones in Q4, for a marketplace share of 22.8%.

Shipments were up 275% compared to a prior entertain on a strength of a Android-based Galaxy line. “Its array of Galaxy smartphones one after another to expand, with courtesy to both a high-end (Galaxy S II, Galaxy Nexus) as well as mass marketplace (Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Y),” IDC said.

The greatest crook in a duration was Nokia, that is in a surrounded by of transitioning a product line from a Symbian OS to Windows Phone.

The association was mostly absent from a pass U.S. marketplace in a fourth entertain as a initial Windows Phone offering, a Lumia 710, did not arrive in a U.S. until final month. The company’s shipments fell 30.6% during a period, to 19.6 million, whilst a marketplace share declined to 12.4%, from 27.6% a prior year.

Nokia available a fourth-quarter handling detriment of $1.25 billion.

Embattled RIM, that once ruled a commercial operation smartphone market, saw a shipments tumble 11%, to thirteen million, in a fourth entertain whilst a marketplace share strike singular digits at 8.2%. It was a difficult entertain for a Canadian company, that voiced that a BlackBerry OS 10 products would not strike a marketplace until after this year. “Such a check gives a foe an event to conflict RIM’s strongholds,” pronounced IDC.

Rounding out a tip 5 was HTC which, similar to Samsung, sells Android as well as Windows Phone-based devices. Its shipments jumped 8.5% year-over-year in Q4, to 10.2 million, for a marketplace share of 6.5%. IDC pronounced altogether smartphone shipments grew 54.7% in a fourth quarter.