Samsung keeps crown in ‘challenging’ global Q1 smartphone market
Samsung has retained its crown in the global smartphone market amidst an ongoing “challenging” landscape that had all but one major vendor bleeding shipments.
Samsung has retained its crown in the global smartphone market amidst an ongoing “challenging” landscape that had all but one major vendor bleeding shipments.
Samsung has maintained its position as the leading global smartphone vendor with 22 per cent market share, while the overall market experienced its worst Q3 for sell-in shipments since 2014.
The decline of Huawei shipments and LG’s planned exit from the smartphone market is paving the way for other vendors to swoop in and bolster up their ranking in the global market share leaderboards.
Xiaomi has blasted past Apple for the second time in the global smartphone shipment rankings, coming in second place for the first time during the June quarter.
Research firm Canalys has found global smartphone shipments grew 1 per cent in Q3 of 2019, reversing two years of declines.
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By Kalyan Madala, CTO for IBM Australia, Southeast Asia, New Zealand & Korea (ASEANZK)