Global smartphone shipments top 1bn: IDC

Global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion units for first time in 2013, climbing 38.4% percent from the previous year. 

BEIJING: Global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion units for first time in 2013, climbing 38.4% percent from the previous year to 1.004 billion units, research firm IDC said.

Smartphones made up 55.1 percent of all mobile phone shipments last year from just over two-fifths in 2012, IDC said.

Samsung Electronics Co's market share edged up one percentage point year-on-year to 31.3% to keep its place as the world's biggest smartphone vendor, while second-place Apple Inc's fell from 18.7% to 15.3 percent, according to IDC.

Huawei Technologies Co, LG Electronics and Lenovo Group were third, fourth and fifth largest respectively, each with a market share of just under 5% in 2013.

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