[Ingtar]

(Samsung) sold 95 million handsets in the fourth quarter, of which 71 million to 76 million of them were smartphones. Rival Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones in its fiscal first quarter. I guess that huge profit came because for Apple they lump in IPads.

[ctdonath2]

Comparing the same quarter would help.

[Swordmaker]

(Samsung) sold 95 million handsets in the fourth quarter, of which 71 million to 76 million of them were smartphones. Rival Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones in its fiscal first quarter. I guess that huge profit came because for Apple they lump in IPads.

The quarters are analogous covering the same calendar quarter. And, no, Samsung shipped, not sold as they do not report numbers sold (only Apple actually reports numbers of phones sold to end users), 74.4 million phones, ~30% of which were smartphones, ~40% feature phones, and ~30% dumb phones. Samsung's phone product mix was revealed in last year's Apple v. Samsung patent infringement trial when Judge Lucy Koh required Samsung to reveal it under oath. Apple sold 74.5 million Smartphones. Those numbers are not in question. Apple also sold 21 million iPads. The profits in the phone industry do not include tablets, a separate market entirely. These are FACTS. Your uninformed guess is WRONG.