The
worldwide smartphone market shipped 1.004 billion units last year, up by 38.4
per cent from the 725.3 million units in 2012, according to estimates from IDC.
In the
fourth quarter of 2013, vendors shipped a total 284.4 million smartphones
worldwide, up by 24.2 per cent from a year earlier.
Smartphones accounted for 55.1 per cent of all mobile phone
shipments in 2013, up from 41.7 per cent in 2012. In the broader mobile
phone market, global shipments reached 1.822 billion units in 2013, up by 4.8
per cent from a year earlier. Fourth-quarter shipments reached 488.4 million,
an increase of 0.9 per cent year-on-year.
Samsung added one per cent point of market share in smartphones,
to strengthen its lead at 31.3 per cent of shipments. It also grew by almost one
per cent in the broader market, taking 24.6 per cent of the total mobile
market. Nokia's share of the total market dropped to 13.8 per cent from 19.3 in
2012, and it did not make the top five smartphone makers.
Apple was in second place in smartphones, although its share
dropped to 15.3 per cent from 18.7 in 2012. Apple took 8.4 per cent of the
total mobile phone market. LG ranked fourth in the total market with a 3.8 per cent
share and fifth in smartphones with 4.8 per cent, both up on a year
earlier.
Huawei came third in
smartphones, growing its share to 5.8 per cent, and Lenovo moved to fourth in
the smartphone rankings, taking 4.9 per cent of shipments.
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