Samsung is the world's most successful smartphone vendor in
terms of volume mainly thanks to the popularity of high - end Galaxy S and Note families, but mid-range A and J - series devices also play their part in the chaebol's total industry domination.
Nokia attributed the decline
mainly to falling sales
of its «mobile devices» — the
term the company users for its lower - end devices including the Asha range — citing «lower
volumes and ASPs, affected by competitive industry dynamics, including intense smartphone competition at increasingly lower price points and intense competition at the low end
of our product portfolio».