Analysts in one voice say that the smartphone market is rapidly taking over - after six years, for example, the share of low-cost models will account for 46% of the segment . IDC company released its report on the smartphone market, which analyzes the situation in the first quarter this year.
It is natural that after the fourth quarter of last year, there has been some decline: in the world are sold 418.6 million mobile phones against 483.2 million in the previous quarter. In annual terms, however, there has been some growth - in the first quarter last year, was sold 402.4 million mobile phones. In fact, smartphones are beginning to outweigh other types of mobile phones: the total amount of 51.6% (216.2 million units) . The smartphone market declined by 5.1% compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, but increased by 41.6% compared to the first quarter last year.
Samsung is the leader of the smartphone market. In the first quarter, the company has released so many smart phones. A year ago, the Korean giant has sold only 44 million smartphones in the first quarter this year it increased from 60.7% to 70.7 million units. Samsung's share in this segment increased from 28.8% to 32.7%.
Apple though managed to increase the annual number of iPhone sold from 35.1 million to 37.4 million, its share of the market was reduced from 23% to 17.3%. Rapid growth noted by LG, which for the year increased smartphones volumes from 4.9 million to 10.3 million units. Chinese company Huawei with 94.1 per cent growth and 9.9 million sold in the first quarter of smartphones. ZTE in absolute terms, lagging slightly - 9.1 million smartphones. However, the last three producers control only slightly more than 4% of the smartphone market each, the share of other brands account for 36.4% of the total. Related Products :
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