Samsung remains No.1 in global cell phone market

Samsung sold 89 million smartphones and other mobile handsets in the April-June period, taking up 20.5 per cent of the global market, according to the data compiled by industry tracker Strategy Analytics. 

 

Samsung’s second-quarter shipments fell 6.6 per cent on-year, and its global market share was also down 1.8 percentage points from a year earlier.

 

The Korean tech giant was followed by U.S. rival Apple with 10.9 per cent of the market by selling 47.5 million units in that period and China-based Huawei Technologies, which sold 30.6 million units of handsets. The Chinese firm took the third spot by taking up 7 per cent of the market, defeating US Microsoft., which took up 6.4 per cent of the market, for the first time.

 

“Samsung has stabilised volumes in the high-end, but its lower-tier mobile phones continue to face intense competition from rivals such as Huawei in Asia,” it added.