Global smartphone shipments have declined since last quarter – but have grown by 28.6% compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 281.5 million smartphones worldwide.<\/p>\n
This was up 28.6% from the 218.8 million units in 1Q13 but down -2.8% from the 289.6 million units shipped in 4Q13.<\/p>\n
The results beat IDC’s forecast of 267.2 million units for the first quarter of 2014 by 5.3%.<\/p>\n
“The first quarter of the year typically brings sequential retrenchment from the holiday spending of the previous quarter,” said Ramon Llamas, Research Manager with IDC’s Mobile Phone team.<\/p>\n
“The small difference between the two quarters points to sustained strong demand, driven by emerging markets, low-cost devices, and the proliferation of 4G networks.”<\/p>\n
“If this is how we start the year, then we can look forward to another record-breaking quarter at the end of the year,” he said.<\/p>\n
IDC expects total smartphone shipment volumes to reach 1.2 billion units in 2014, up 19.3% year over year from the 1.0 billion units shipped in 2013. This would mark a slowdown from the 39.2% growth seen in 2013.<\/p>\n
Samsung retained its top spot amongst smartphone vendors in the past quarter, having shipped more smartphones than the next four vendors combined.<\/p>\n
Apple reached a new first quarter record, breaching the 40 million unit mark, while Huawei kept its third place position worldwide, beating out Lenovo by fewer than a million units.<\/p>\n
Lenovo posted the largest year-over-year increase among the leading vendors – 63.3% – while LG continued as the number five vendor worldwide and its 12.3 million units were enough to stave off multiple Chinese vendors, including Coolpad, Xiaomi, and ZTE.<\/p>\n
Vendor<\/strong><\/td>\n| 1Q13 Shipments | \n<\/strong><\/td>\n 1Q13 Market Share<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n | 1Q14 Shipments<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n | 1Q14 Market Share<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n | YoY change | \n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Samsung<\/td>\n | 69.7<\/td>\n | 31.9%<\/td>\n | 85.0<\/td>\n | 30.2%<\/td>\n | 22.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Apple<\/td>\n | 37.4<\/td>\n | 17.1%<\/td>\n | 43.7<\/td>\n | 15.5%<\/td>\n | 16.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Huawei<\/td>\n | 9.3<\/td>\n | 4.3%<\/td>\n | 13.7<\/td>\n | 4.9%<\/td>\n | 47.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Lenovo<\/td>\n | 7.9<\/td>\n | 3.6%<\/td>\n | 12.9<\/td>\n | 4.6%<\/td>\n | 63.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | LG<\/td>\n | 10.3<\/td>\n | 4.7%<\/td>\n | 12.3<\/td>\n | 4.4%<\/td>\n | 19.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Others<\/td>\n | 84.2<\/td>\n | 38.5%<\/td>\n | 113.9<\/td>\n | 40.5%<\/td>\n | 35.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Total<\/strong><\/td>\n | 218.8<\/strong><\/td>\n | 100.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n | 281.5<\/strong><\/td>\n | 100.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n | 28.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n | All mobile phones<\/h3>\nIn the global mobile phone market (inclusive of smartphones), vendors shipped 448.6 million units, up 3.9% from the 431.8 million units shipped 1Q13 but down -9.0% from the 492.8 million units shipped in 4Q13.<\/p>\n This is 0.6% lower than the 451.3 million units IDC had forecast for the quarter.<\/p>\n Samsung was once again the most dominant vendor, with 24.3% of the total mobile phone market share, followed by Nokia (11.3%), Apple (9.7%), LG ( 3.6%) and Huawei (3.2%).<\/p>\n Smartphones accounted for 62.7% of all mobile phone shipments in 1Q14, up from the 50.7% of all mobile phone shipments in 1Q13.<\/p>\n More on mobile phones<\/h3>\nMobile phones are not a cancer risk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Top selling mobile phones of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n NSA is tracking mobile phones all over the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n |