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.
Apple has continued its hold on the Australian smartphone market, coming in at first place for market share during the first three months of 2022.
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.
The global smartphone market's latest surge shows signs of a market moving past COVID-19 in 2021, even with the market's overall decline last year.
Apple has grown its share of the Australian smartphone market amid an overall year-on-year decline of 15.4 per cent in the third calendar quarter of 2020.
Global smartphone shipments have plunged in the first three months of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Smartphone sales in Australia rose over the fourth quarter by 6.4 per cent year-on-year, while global sales fell by 0.4 per cent.
The rate of Australian smartphone sales decline has increased over the third quarter, with weakened demand due to consumers being concerned about value for money.
Research firm Canalys has found global smartphone shipments grew 1 per cent in Q3 of 2019, reversing two years of declines.
Global research and advisory firm Gartner has revealed Australian smartphone sales have declined by seven per cent over the second quarter of 2019 to just over two million unit sales.
Multiple data firms are finding smartphone sales have declined to the second half of 2019, but signs point to this trend reversing in 2020.
Ingram Micro has been handed local distribution rights for Xiaomi after inking an exclusive deal with its Australian partner Panmi.
Huawei and Xiaomi have helped drive global smartphone sales preventing the industry as whole from declining in the third quarter of 2018.