According to a recent study of the analytical agency Gartner, in the third quarter, the share of smartphones had 55% of the total weight of sold mobile phones. Total for this period were sold 250.2 million smartphones, up 45.8% compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, the total mobile phone sales grew by only 5.7% in the year to 455.6 million units.
In the third quarter 2013, its lead over Apple's boosted Samsung, which sold about 80.36 million smartphones, a 46% increase over the third quarter of 2012, while Apple managed to implement 30.33 million smart phones. Interestingly, Samsung's market share did not change and remained at 32.1%, while Apple over the past year has lost 2.3% and retained only 12.1%.
The record for the fastest growth is Lenovo company , which managed to increase sales of smartphones by 84.5% to 12.9 million largely due to the Chinese market.
Company |
Sales 3Q'13 |
The market share of 3Q'13 |
Sales 3Q'12 |
The market share 3Q'12 |
Samsung |
80 356.8 |
32.1% |
55 054.2 |
32.1% |
Apple |
30 330.0 |
12.1% |
24 620.3 |
14.3% |
Lenovo |
12 882.0 |
5.1% |
6 981.0 |
4.1% |
LG Electronics |
12 055.4 |
4.8% |
6 986.1 |
4.1% |
Huawei |
11 665.7 |
4.7% |
7 804.3 |
4.5% |
Others |
102 941.8 |
41.1% |
70 206.8 |
40.9% |
Total |
250,231.7 |
100.0% |
171,652.7 |
100.0% |