Global smartphone sales decline 5.7% in third quarter: Gartner

Global smartphone sales to end users totaled 366 million units in the third quarter of 2020, down 5.7 per cent from the same period last year, a Gartner report said on Monday.

Overall global mobile phone sales to end users reached 401 million units, a decline of 8.7 per cent year-over-year.

Samsung held the top position with 22 per cent market share while Huawei was second with 14.1 per cent share.

Xiaomi moved ahead of Apple as the third player for the first time ever with sales of 44.4 million units, compared to Apple’s sales of 40.5 million units in the third quarter.

However, smartphone sales continued to remain weaker compared to the same time period in 2019, even with vendors introducing multiple 5G smartphones and governments relaxing shelter-in-place instructions in some geographies.