Samsung was the top smartphone vendor in Q1 2022

Last updated: May 31st, 2018 at 00:02 UTC+01:00

Gartner has published the smartphone sales numbers for Q1 2018, and they are a mixed purse for Samsung. While the Korean company retained the elevation spot in the list, information technology saw a pocket-sized dip in sales and market share compared to the aforementioned menstruum last year. Global smartphone sales grew by one.3 pct twelvemonth-on-year, reaching well-nigh 384 meg units in the first quarter of 2018.

Samsung sold 78.56 1000000 smartphones in Q1 2018, down from 78.78 million units in Q1 last year. As a result, Samsung's market share dipped from 20.8 percent in Q1 2017 to 20.5 percent in Q1 this year. The early launch of the Milky way S9/S9+ didn't assistance Samsung much equally the company's midrange smartphones continued to face fierce competition from Chinese brands. Despite all this, Samsung still emerged as the largest vendor in the quarter, beating Apple by a healthy margin.

Xiaomi emerges every bit the best performer

The Cupertino giant, however, registered better growth numbers than Samsung with a iv pct yr-on-year increase. iPhone sales in Q1 increased from 51.99 million units last year to 54.06 million devices this year, pushing Apple's market share from 13.7 percent to 14.1 over the same period. Apple's growth charge per unit is impressive considering the company sells only premium devices whose Boilerplate Selling Price (ASP) is close to three times that of Samsung.

Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo occupied the adjacent three spots in the top five with x.5 percent, 7.iv percent, and 7.three percentage market place share respectively. Once again, Xiaomi emerged as the best performer by more than doubling its market share from 3.iv per centum to seven.iv percentage in the commencement quarter. The top five vendors dominated the bear witness past occupying sixty percent market place share, leaving dozens of well-known vendors fighting for the rest.

"Need for premium and high-end smartphones continued to endure due to marginal incremental benefits during upgrade," said Anshul Gupta, enquiry director at Gartner. "Demand for entry-level smartphones (sub-$100) and low midtier smartphones (sub-$150) improved due to meliorate-quality models."