Xiaomi Chinese company over the past year has made great strides, and is registered in the top five world's largest smartphones manufacturers .
IDC claims that in real terms Xiaomi for the third quarter came in third place with 17.3 million Pieces and 5.3% production of the world market. In this version better rankings were only Samsung (23,8%) and Apple (12%). According to the second report, Xiaomi is fifth with 18 million Smartphones and 3.9% of the market. However, note that Strategy Analytics note ordinary mobile phones, not just smartphones, so in this ranking second after Samsung is Microsoft / Nokia with 11.4% market share. In ranking only smartphone Xiaomi also ranks third.
According to IDC, in the third quarter, sales of smartphones grew by 25.2% to 327.6 million. Pieces. Demand for smartphones is now moving up mainly due to low-cost devices in emerging markets. By the way, Samsung was the only manufacturer in the top five leaders, reduce the amount of smartphone sales YoY (-8.2%). Special progress showed Xiaomi, increase the supply by 211%.