Strategy Analytics has discharged its latest report on the smartphone market. The smartphone shipments worldwide throughout the Q1 this year grew 33rd annually setting another record with 281 million units. The mobile shipments (including featurephones and smartphones) additionally grew by 9.4% to 407.9 units shipped globally.
| Global Smartphone Vendor Shipments (Millions of Units) | Q1 ’13 | Q1 ’14 |
| Samsung | 69.4 | 89.0 |
| Apple | 37.4 | 43.7 |
| Huawei | 10.1 | 13.4 |
| Lenovo | 8.4 | 13.3 |
| Others | 88.7 | 125.6 |
| Total | 213.9 | 285.0 |
| Global Smartphone Vendor Marketshare % | Q1 ’13 | Q1 ’14 |
| Samsung | 32.4% | 31.2% |
| Apple | 17.5% | 15.3% |
| Huawei | 4.7% | 4.7% |
| Lenovo | 3.9% | 4.7% |
| Others | 41.5% | 44.1% |
Even though the smartphone shipments ar growing speedily, the highest makers ar losing market share in favor of the second-tier ones. Samsung keeps its 1st place within the smartphone market with 31.2% share, dropping 1.2% down from Q1 last year. Apple additionally lost 2.2% share and is currently holding 15.3% at the second place. Huawei unbroken its third place with minor boost, whereas Lenovo shipments grew by 0.8%.
| Global Mobile Phone Vendor Shipments (Millions of Units) | Q1 ’13 | Q1 ’14 |
| Samsung | 106.6 | 113.0 |
| Nokia | 61.9 | 47.0 |
| Apple | 37.4 | 43.7 |
| LG | 16.2 | 16.4 |
| Huawei | 11.6 | 14.2 |
| Others | 139.0 | 173.6 |
| Total | 372.7 | 407.9 |
| Global Mobile Phone Vendor Marketshare % | Q1 ’13 | Q1 ’14 |
| Samsung | 28.6% | 27.7% |
| Nokia | 16.6% | 11.5% |
| Apple | 10.0% | 10.7% |
| LG | 4.3% | 4.0% |
| Huawei | 3.1% | 3.5% |
| Others | 37.3% | 42.6% |
All international mobile phones shipments, as we tend to already mentioned, have additionally rumored a visible increase. Here Samsung, Nokia, and LG ar all losing tiny bits of market share in favor of Apple, Huawei and also the second-tier of makers (TCL-Alcatel, Coolpad, Lenovo, Xiaomi and others).
Now that Lenovo is on the verge of getting Motorola and Microsoft has simply completed its Nokia Devices deal, we should always be seeing some interesting changes in those reports throughout the coming quarters.
