: Gartner says: WorldWide smartphones market share: Samsung 32.1%, Apple 12.1%, Lenovo 5.1%.
Gartner Says Smartphone Sales Accounted for 55 Percent of Overall Mobile Phone Sales in Third Quarter of 2013.
- Western Europe Grew for the First Time this Year
- Lenovo Became the No. 3 Worldwide Smartphone Vendor for the First Time
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 455.6
million units in the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 5.7 percent
from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc. Sales of
smartphones accounted for 55 percent of overall mobile phone sales in
the third quarter of 2013, and reached their highest share to date.
Worldwide smartphone sales to end users reached 250.2
million units, up 45.8 percent from the third quarter of 2012.
Asia/Pacific led the growth in both markets - the smartphone segment
with 77.3 percent increase and the mobile phone segment with 11.9
percent growth. The other regions to show an increase in the overall
mobile phone market were Western Europe, which returned to growth for
the first time this year, and the Americas.
“Sales of feature phones continued to decline and the
decrease was more pronounced in markets where the average selling price
(ASP) for feature phones was much closer to the ASP affordable
smartphones,” said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner.
“In markets such as China and Latin America, demand for feature phones
fell significantly as users rushed to replace their old models with
smartphones.”
Gartner analysts said global mobile phone sales are on
pace to reach 1.81 billion units in 2013, a 3.4 percent increase from
2012. “We will see several new tablets enter the market for the holiday
season, and we expect consumers in mature markets will favor the
purchase of smaller-sized tablets over the replacement of their older
smartphones” said Mr. Gupta.
While Samsung’s share was flat in the third quarter of
2013, Samsung increased its lead over Apple in the global smartphone
market (see Table 1). The launch of the Samsung Note 3 helped reaffirm
Samsung as the clear leader in the large display smartphone market,
which it pioneered.
Lenovo’s sales of smartphones grew to 12.9 million
units, up 84.5 percent year-on-year. It constantly raised share in the
Chinese smartphone market.
Apple’s smartphone sales reached 30.3 million units in
the third quarter of 2013, up 23.2 percent from a year ago. “While the
arrival of the new iPhones 5s and 5c had a positive impact on overall
sales, such impact could have been greater had they not started shipping
late in the quarter. While we saw some inventory built up for the
iPhone 5c, there was good demand for iPhone 5s with stock out in many
markets,” said Mr. Gupta.
In the smartphone operating system (OS) market (see Table 2), Android
surpassed 80 percent market share in the third quarter of 2013, which
helped extend its leading position.
“However, the winner of this quarter
is Microsoft which grew 123 percent. Microsoft announced the intent to
acquire Nokia’s devices and services business, which we believe will
unify effort and help drive appeal of Windows ecosystem,” said Mr.
Gupta. Forty-one per cent of all Android sales were in mainland China,
compared to 34 percent a year ago.
Samsung is the only non-Chinese
vendor in the top 10 Android players ranking in China. Whitebox Yulong
is the third largest Android vendor in China with a 9.7 percent market
share in the third quarter of 2013. Xiaomi represented 4.3 percent of
Android sales in the third quarter of 2013, up from 1.4 percent a year
ago.
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