Half of the Christmas phones from Apple – 99mac

Apple accounted for 49 percent of activated new phones during the holiday season, with Samsung as distant runner-up.

Apple also took the lead this year in terms of mobile phones under the Christmas tree. According to data from research firm Flurry, Apple accounted for 49.1 percent of activated mobiltelefonere between 19 and 25 December this year.

Second, Samsung accounted for 19.8 percent, and distant third Nokia 2 percent. LG and Xiaomi was in position four and five, with 1.7 and 1.5 percent. Xiaomis modest investments can be partially explained by the Christmas festival is not very large in China.

Data have been collected by reviewing the 780 000 different apps installed. Christmas is the time of year when the absolute most apps installed, and on Christmas Day noted Flurry more than twice as many installations as a typical day in December.

Mobile phone with extra large screen, so-called phablets, continues to be very popoulära and represents about half of all Android phones activated. At Apple are larger models Iphone 6S Plus and iPhone 6 Plus, only 12 percent of the total amount of iPhone activations. Total constitute mobiles with displays larger than 5 inches 27 percent, which is a good increase over last year’s 13 percent.