Apple iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus are the most shipped smartphones during Q2 2017
According to fresh data from Strategy Analytics, the Apple iPhone 7 was the most popular smartphone in the world for the second quarter of 2017 followed by the Apple iPhone 7 Plus. Apple shipped 16.9 million units of the 4.7-inch iPhone 7 from April through June, and 15.1 million of the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus during the same time period. The two handsets had 4.7% and 4.2% of the global smartphone market respectively.
In third place was the Samsung Galaxy S8, which had 10.2 million units shipped world-wide in the period. The larger Samsung Galaxy S8+ was next as 9 million pieces of that model were delivered in the three months. As far as market share was concerned, the Galaxy S8 was responsible for 2.8% of global smartphone shipments and the Galaxy S8+ tallied a Q2 share of 2.5%. With a total of 19.2 million Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ units shipped, the model was the best selling Android handset in the world during the second quarter of this year.
source: StrategyAnalytics via AppleInsider
Rounding out the top five handsets with 5.5 million phones shipped was the Xiaomi Redmi 4A. The number of shipments allowed the device to get credit for a market share of 1.5%. Overall, 360.4 million smartphones were shipped globally in Q2 of 2017. That turned out to be a year-over-year increase of 5.5% from the 341.5 shipped in Q2 of 2016.
source: StrategyAnalytics via AppleInsider
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