IDC: Global smartphone shipments rose 25% in the third quarter

According to the latest report of IDC, the Market Research Institute, the global smartphone shipments grew 25% per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2014, while Apple gained robust growth, while Samsung became the only v manufacturer to drop shipments in the AppleInsider, according to the technology blog. In the third quarter, Samsung remained at the top of the global smartphone market, with shipments of 78.1 million, with a share of 23.8%, down 8.5% from a year earlier, according to the IDC report. Samsung's global smartphone shipments reached 85 million in the fourth quarter of last year. Second, Apple, the iphone, recorded record sales in the last quarter, reaching 39.27 million units, up 16.1% per cent year-on-year. Apple's smartphone market share is 12%, a slight drop from 12.9% a year earlier, IDC said. Despite a lot of news that the smartphone market is slowing, overall shipments still hit new highs in the third quarter. Ryan Reith, the IDC project director, Leine Reisse that most developed markets now have units that are growing, while emerging markets are still up more than 30% per cent. In emerging markets, lower prices have boosted the popularity of smartphones. This is beneficial to the growth of the entire market, but as smartphones quickly commercialize, manufacturers are facing the challenge of how to make a profit. In addition to Apple, many manufacturers are underperforming in this respect. He pointed out that the old iphone 5s and iphone 5c accounted for a big part of the iphone's third-quarter sales, although recent concerns have largely fallen on the latest iphone 6 and iphone 6 Plus. In the third quarter, the number of millet smartphone shipments reached 17.3 million, up 211.3% from 5.6 million in the same period last year. The company's global market share rose to 5.3% from 2.1% a year earlier. Lenovo and LG in the smartphone market in the fourth and five, shipments were 16.9 million and 16.8 million, the same year look no change, but their share has increased by 0.5%. Huawei fell to the top five, the company's third-largest in the second quarter of 2014. According to IDC data, overall, the third quarter of the global smartphone shipments to 327.6 million, an increase of 25.2%. Translator: Le bang original link: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/30/ Samsung-apple-retain-global-smartphone-lead-in-q3-as-xiaomi-rockets-into-third Baidu News and technical cooperation with NetEase manuscripts, reproduced please indicate the source.