Global Smartphone Market Posts Record Q3, Apple underperforming

Global smartphone market reached first quarterly during the third quarter, more than a quarter of a billion units for the first time, Neil Mawston, executive director of the Strategy Analytics Global Wireless Practice 'wrote in an October 28 blog post.
Smartphone market to grow 45 percent annually, shipping 251 million units.
"Strong growth in the smart phone industry, driven by strong demand for LTE models in developed regions such as the United States and 3G devices in developing countries such as China," wrote Mawston.
Samsung again the market leader, driving market share exceeded one-third to 35 percent, on shipments of 88.4 million units. While the delivery of the flagship Galaxy S 4 softened, "solid demand for new Note 3 phablet and for mass market devices like the Galaxy Y Samsung has helped lift volume," wrote Mawston.

Apple finished in second place, shipping 33.8 million iPhones during the quarter and grabbing 26.9 percent of the global market share.

Apple Growth Now , only 26 percent per year during the quarter , which is only about half the overall average smartphone industry , Mawston said .

" Apple's share of the global smartphone market has propagated this was from 16 percent to 13 percent over the past year , " said Mawston . "Nevertheless , we expect Apple to rebound sharply and regain share in the fourth quarter of 2013 due to high demand for the new model of iPhone 5S . "

During Apple's Oct. 28 quarterly earnings call , the company shared that iPad sales were flat during the last quarter and down 300,000 unit sales of Macs . Apples carry $ 7500000000 revenue gains at $ 37500000000 . ( This compares with $ 8.2 billion and $ 36 billion a year earlier . Prices Apple shares fell in after-hours trading . )

A star is a quarter of Huawei , which surpassed LG Electronics as the third place finisher . Huawei shipments grew 67 percent annually to 12.7 million units , up from 7.6 million last year .

Huawei is a " very strong " in the Chinese domestic market , said Mawston , but if it is to move up another rung , it will need to " aggressively expand " in the United States and Europe .

In the U.S. , growth also means addressing the contempt reputation. ( The U.S. government has warned businesses involved in the architecture is important to avoid the use of telecommunications equipment Huawei . )

LG finished just behind Huawei , with shipments of 12 million smartphones in the market share of 4.8 percent , compared with 5.1 percent Huawei .

Fifth - a favorite place Lenovo in the Chinese mass market - shipped 10.8 million units , up from 6.4 million last year .

Juniper Research , in a statement on October 29 studies , said not forget Nokia , the market leader of former starting reassert itself .

" Nokia shipped a record 8.8 million Lumia devices and Asha nearly 6 million smartphones in Q3 2013 , together exceed the LG for the second time this year , " said analysts at Juniper . "

( Strategy Analytics , shows that Nokia Asha Phones category list in the statement of income , only compute Lumia sales - 8.8 million - due to smartphone sales . )

Pointing to Samsung and Apple , Juniper analyst added , " The top-end players are expected to continue to witness impressive growth next quarter due to the season , however , a steady decline in Juniper expects further growth , especially in mature markets . "

Differentiation , they said , would be " crucial " to their success . Plus , " the strategy used to achieve differentiation should be different for mature and emerging markets , " said Juniper .