Samsung delivered 56.3 million smartphones in the third quarter

According to the quarterly report of the analytical company IDC, Samsung’s smartphone shipments have doubled Apple’s iPhone shipments.

During the third quarter, the Korean company Samsung delivered about 56.3 million smartphones to the world market, thus, the company captured almost a third (31.3%) of the global smart device market. Apple’s figures are exactly 2 times lower: global iPhone shipments amount to 26.9 million, the market share is 15%.

In total, Samsung and Apple supplied about half of all smartphones to the market (83.2 million out of a total of 179.7 million). By the way, compared to the same period last year, the global smartphone market has grown by 45%.

Interestingly, according to IDC, iPhone shipments for the third quarter amount to 26.9 million devices, and Apple itself claims that these are not shipments, but sales.  

Important: Nokia has dropped out of the top five smartphone manufacturers. If last quarter it was in third place with a share of 6.6% and total shipments of 10.2 million smartphones, then this year, apparently, it has less than 4% and 7 million delivered gadgets.    

RIM and HTC continue to lose ground, unlike the increasingly popular Chinese ZTE, whose performance over the past year has grown by 82%. The company’s shipments for the third quarter amounted to 7.5 million devices, bringing it a 4.2% share of the global market. 

LG, Huawei, Sony, Motorola and a host of other companies are responsible for the remaining 41.2% of the smartphone market (or 74 million devices).