The smartphone segment gradually reaches saturation, sales growth does not stop. In the last quarter in the world has been sold 295.3 million smartphones - 23.1% higher than a year earlier and 2.6% more than in the first quarter of this year. Experts expect that the third quarter will be sold more than 300 million smartphones .
The alignment of forces in the ranking of the top five smartphones manufacturers not changed much, but IDC believes that the positions will soon begin to fight for Chinese manufacturers. Especially Huawei with 6.9% of the market is already ranked third quarter in a row . Apple is losing ground with lower iPhone sales . For the year Apple retreated from 13% to 11.9%. Samsung market leader sales fell by 3.9% per year, and its market share fell from 32.3% to 25.2%. During
this time, Huawei was able to increase sales by 95.1% of smartphones, and the market share of this manufacturer has grown from 4.3% to 6.9%.
Lenovo is also formally a Chinese manufacturer, while outside China its smartphones is not so popular as in this country. Sales volumes of products of this brand for the year increased by 38.7% and its market share increased from 4.7% to 5.4%. Korean company LG has sold in the second quarter this year, 19.8% more smartphones than a year earlier, its market share increased from 4.9% to 5.0%.
Apple at the recent quarterly report conference expressed satisfaction with the sales of the iPhone in the largest emerging economies.
A year ago, only 5% of smartphones Lenovo sold outside China, but now their share close to 15%.
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