"techjuice" : Apple beats Samsung to become the top smartphone seller, Huawei is quickly catching up

collected by :Andro Alex The Chinese smartphone maker Huawei gained significant grounds in terms of smartphone sales and made to the third spot. Apple has clinched the top position in the smartphone market leaving Samsung in dust. This time last year, Samsung held about 21% of the total smartphone market. Gartner, a US-based technology research company, brought out a study on the number of total smartphone sold in the last quarter. The report showed that the global smartphone sales grew by 7% during the last quarter of 2016.


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Samsung-Apple smartphone battle heats up, as Huawei narrows in

Samsung pushed 306.45 million units in 2016, while Apple sold 216.06 million units. With Samsung's stance weakened, Apple was able to climb ahead to assume pole position in the fourth quarter. Some 432 million smartphone units were sold worldwide in the quarter, up 7 percent year-on-year, according to the latest market figures from Gartner. 2 position in China and was marginally ahead of Huawei during the fourth quarter of 2016." It helped narrow the gap between the Chinese vendor and Samsung to a difference of 36 million units, compared to more than 50 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Huawei catching up with Apple, Samsung smartphone sales: Gartner report

Huawei was able to increase its share of the smartphone sector to 8.9% in 2016 from 7.3% in 2015. Among the other Chinese smartphone makers are OPPO, BBK Communication Equipment (with its One Plus and Vivo brands), ZTE, Xiaomi and Lenovo. Samsung sold 76.8 million smartphones in the October-December period, giving it a market share of 17.8%, while Huawei sold 40.8 million phones or a market share of 9.5%. Photo: AFPParis: Chinese smartphone maker Huawei managed to gain ground on Samsung and Apple in terms of market share last year, following the problems encountered by the two sector giants, the Gartner consultancy group said on Wednesday. ALSO READ: Preloaded apps are slowing down new Android smartphones"Preliminary data for the current quarter suggest that Samsung will overtake Apple again.


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