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It’s not all about the iPhone.

Samsung Electronics has now cornered about 18% of the global smartphone market with sales driven by its Galaxy S II, according to Mark Sue, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets.

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“In our estimation by units, Samsung may have nudged Apple [Inc.] in terms of total smartphones in the third quarter,” he said in a research note Friday.

He said Samsung’s third-quarter market share is likely to come in at close to 21%.

Samsung highlighted the smartphone surge in a preannouncement of positive results, although its overall operating profits were still down 13.6% year over year to 4.2-trillion Korean won (about $3.7-billion) due to difficulties in its memory segment and panel business, Mr. Sue said.

The company’s newest model of its Android smartphone reached 10 million units shipped in less than five months, outstripping the original Galaxy S, which took almost seven months to reach that mark.