Global smartphone shipments top 1billion

Global smartphone shipments top 1billion

Acoording to research firm IDC, global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion units for first time in 2013, climbing 38.4 percent from the previous year to 1.004 billion units.
[blockquote cite=””] Smartphones made up 55.1 percent of all mobile phone shipments last year from just over two-fifths in 2012.
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Samsung Electronics Co’s market share edged up one percentage point year-on-year to 31.3 percent to keep its place as the world’s biggest smartphone vendor, while second-place Apple Inc’s fell from 18.7 percent to 15.3 percent.

Huawei Technologies Co, LG Electronics and Lenovo Group were third, fourth and fifth largest respectively, each with a market share of just under five percent in 2013.