Gartner : Samsung leads smartphone and mobile phone sales in 2Q2015
The stats in from Gartner for 2Q2015 and Samsung has managed to keep the lead, by decent margin while Apple came in second and on OS side, Android continued to dominate the operating system market. Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi managed to increased their market share while Samsung and Lenovo registered negative growth. Apple managed to increase iOS market share, thanks to heavy sales of iPhones and Android, Windows Phone registered negative growth. Blackberry’s OS is now at a mere 0.3%.
330 million smartphones are sold last quarter and only 110 million mobile phones are sold. Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Huawei and LG took the top five spots for total mobile phone shipments across the globe. Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, TCL, ZTE and Micromax managed to increase their sales while Samsung, Microsoft, LG, Lenovo registered negative sales.
Android managed keep complete lead ahead while iOS managed to gain 2.4% share and still could only manage 14.6% market.
“While demand for lower-cost 3G and 4G smartphones continued to drive growth in emerging markets, overall smartphone sales remained mixed region by region in the second quarter of 2015,” said Anshul Gupta, research director at Gartner. Emerging Asia/Pacific (excluding China), Eastern Europe and Middle East and Africa were the fastest-growing regions, driven by good performance from Chinese and local vendors. By contrast, smartphone sales in China fell for the first time year over year, recording a 4 percent decline.
“China is the biggest country for smartphone sales, representing 30 percent of total sales of smartphones in the second quarter of 2015. Its poor performance negatively affected the performance of the mobile phone market in the second quarter,” said Mr. Gupta. “China has reached saturation — its phone market is essentially driven by replacement, with fewer first-time buyers. Beyond the lower-end phone segment, the appeal of premium smartphones will be key for vendors to attract upgrades and to maintain or grow their market share in China.”
