Analytical company IDC has published a report on the state of the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2017. Only vendors put 347,4 million smartphones globally, which represents an increase of 4.3% compared to the same quarter last year.
The main intrigue unfolded in the fight for first place. In the fourth quarter of 2016 the analytical company, including IDC, awarded victory to Apple, which is not much, but it could overtake Samsung, putting against 78,3 77,5 million smartphones. In the first quarter of 2017, Samsung is back in the first place, and surely — she sold to 79.2 million smartphones, whereas Apple has to only 51.6 mln
Third, fourth and fifth places are occupied by three Chinese companies — Huawei from 34.2 million, 25.6 million with OPPO and vivo with 18.1 million And if compared to the first quarter of last year, Samsung and Apple showed an increase of 0% and 0.8%, respectively, Huawei, OPPO and vivo are developing intensively — 21.7%, 29.8% and 23.6 per cent.