Archive for July 2014
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports 288 million smartphone shipped in Q1 2014. This is 63% of all phones shipped. IDC predicts that over one billion smartphones will ship in calendar 2014. Samsung leads the brands with 31% share and Apple has 15%. The share and movement since 2011 are shown on the IDC graph right.
Market share is expected to move towards the lower priced yet highly spec’ed units mainly from Chinese makers. Chinese makers Huawei and Lenovo already figure in the league but some of the brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, ZTE and OnePlus are likely to move from the “Others” to rank with them in market share.