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This article was published on December 16, 2014 at 19:39.
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Three of the top five smartphone manufacturers are Chinese. The data of Gartner’s third quarter 2014, Date of Info Blog the interactive charts tell how well they are going sales of smart phones. Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi collectively gained 4.1 percentage points. Together control 15% of the market, finishing well behind Apple (12.7%) and Samsung, with 24.4% remains the undisputed leader.

However, the duopoly Samsung-Apple begins to show signs of slowing. For the Korean giant, in particular, 2014 is likely to go down in history as his bad year. Especially for smartphones: the same period of 2013 have sold 7 million smartphones in less with a market share that has risen from 32 to 24 percent. Even on normal mobile phones (not smart) is the loss of 5 percentage points.

Main accused is the drop in demand in Europe and Asia. In China in particular, the largest market not only for Samsung, the decline close to 30% (28.6 to be exact).

The 2014 is the year of the Dragon

They celebrate the producers of the dragon. Huawei, Lenovo and Xiaomi, say Gartner analysts, having covered the band low cost are ready to storm to the top of the class. One for all is to Xiamo that less than a year after the debut has reached the top five with a growth of 336 percent. Indeed, if we focus on the data of the third quarter we find that separate it from Huawei (third place), just under a million handsets.

How far is the Samsung-Apple duopoly by the advance of China?

We must say that the distance from the first two remains consistent in terms of volume. Apple sells more than twice as Huawei. Samsung more than four times.

Apple serene toast to the new year. Indeed …

Who can not just complain about the 2014 is that Apple has boosted sales for the quarter of 26%. The introduction of the iPhone and iPhone 6 6 Plus Sterilized avanzateadegli Android smartphone. So much so that Gartner to predict the end of the year a further boom in sales.



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