Global Smartphone Shipments Fell 6.3% in Q4 2022

Through its latest 'Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker', IDC has revealed that the global smartphone market declined 6.three percent during the terminal quarter of last year, with 403.5 million smartphones shipped around the world as opposed to 430.7 million units during the same catamenia in 2016. The figures for the full yr also showed a marginal decline of 0.i percent, largely due to the massive slowdown in the Chinese and American smartphone markets.

One of the major highlights of the study is Apple wresting the smartphone crown from Samsung after a long fourth dimension, mostly because of the popularity of the iPhone X. Notwithstanding, the Cupertino-based tech giant also suffered lower sales during the final quarter. According to IDC, Apple's total shipments of 77.three million units during the last quarter of 2017 correspond a 1.three percentage drop from the same catamenia in 2016. Withal, that was yet plenty for the visitor to rising to the tiptop, with the erstwhile number 1, Samsung, managing to ship barely 74.1 million units in the fourth quarter, down 4.4 percentage on a YoY footing.

Smartphone Shipments Fell 6.3% in Q4 2017; Apple Surpassed Samsung as Market Leader

Samsung, yet, retained its pole position as far as the full year is concerned, shipping 317.3 million units in all of 2017, upwardly 1.9 percent from the 311.iv one thousand thousand units shipped in 2016. Apple also increased its yearly sales in 2017, albeit, merely marginally, past 0.2%, shipping 215.8 million units as compared to 215.4 million units the previous year.

Interestingly, while all the major smartphone vendors floundered during the terminal three months of final twelvemonth, Xiaomi had a stellar quarter, managing to increase shipments past a whopping 96.nine percentage during Q4 and 75.4 percent during all of 2017, largely on account of its tremendous success in India. The company shipped 28.1 million units during the last quarter and 92.4 1000000 in the whole year, thereby sneaking into the top-v later a long while. Huawei and Oppo came in at numbers three and four with shipments of 153.1 and 111.eight million units respectively.

Smartphone Shipments Fell 6.3% in Q4 2017; Apple Surpassed Samsung as Market Leader