Samsung was the leading smartphone vendor last quarter

Samsung was the leading smartphone vendor in the world in Q3 2015, followed by rival Apple, according to a latest report from research firm Digitimes Research. While the South Korean company holds 25.6% of market share in the quarter, the iPhone maker’s share stood at 14.5%.

Huawei came third with 7.4% market share and was followed by Lenovo, and LG with 4.8%, and 4.5% market share respectively to round up the top five. China’s Xiaomi came in at the sixth spot with 3.8% market share, while Sony and Microsoft were at number 11 and 12, with 2% and 1.7% share, respectively.

Of the top-15 smartphone vendors mentioned in the report, nine are from China, two each from the US and South Korea, and one each from Japan and Taiwan. Overall, a total of 331.9 million smartphones were shipped globally last quarter. The report also forecasted a shipment of 396.8 million units in Q4, which would the take total 2015 shipments number to 1.326 billion.