Samsung Retains Top Position in Global Smartphone Sales during April -June 2015 despite losing market share

 

According to Gartner, nearly 330 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the second quarter of 2015.

Representing a 13.5% increase compared to the same period one year earlier, the numbers nevertheless reveal the slowest progression recorded since 2013.

Samsung remains the top-selling smartphone brand in the world between the months of April and June, 2015 despite having lost market share (21.9% against 26.2% in 2014) to Apple, which gained some ground (+2.4 points of market share) and Chinese manufacturers Huawei (+1.7 points) and Xiaomi (+0.6 points)

In all, Samsung sold 72 million smartphones during this period compared to 48 million for Apple. Huawei (25.8 million), Lenovo (16.4 million) and Xiaomi (16 million) complete the top five.


Note - Samsung Performance in Quarter 1 2015