According to Tech Radar, if the percentile will be converted into a number of sales, it would mean that within three months, Samsung sold more than 45 million smartphones compared to the global sales of 304 million.
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“Shipment growth in the second quarter slowed as vendors prepared to launch their flagship devices in this year’s second half”, the researcher said. However, shipments of branded Chinese smartphones benefited from the Chinese Labor Day sales and their entries into the overseas markets.
However, China-based vendors posted a growth rate higher than the industry’s average, reaching 15.6% or 126 million units in the second quarter. Yesterday TrendForce reported that smartphone shipments in the calendar second quarter of 2015 grew 1.9% over the previous quarter to 304M units.
TrendForce estimates the shipments to be down this year compared to last year due to weakening demand and negative global economic outlook for the rest of the year. “Therefore, vendors are likely to face serious challenges when shipping their products in the near future”.
Samsung took up 26.8 percent of the world’s smartphone market in the April-June period, unchanged from the previous quarter’s reading, while Apple saw its share fall to 16.4 percent from 20.5 percent over the cited period, according to the data compiled by industry tracker TrendForce. However, Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge’s annual shipment forecast has been marked down repeatedly.
Exporter heavyweights were among the decliners, with market bellwether Samsung Electronics shedding 0.4 percent and Hyundai Motor slumping 1.13 percent. It must attract consumers with the new phablet’s latest specifications and features.
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Apple rode high on the popularity of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the first half of 2015 and is expected to see its shipments grow over 15% for all of the year.
