Samsung logs 10% share of global feature phone market in Q3 this year

Samsung Electronics accounted for 10 per cent of the global feature phone market in the third quarter this year, a report said on Wednesday.

Global feature phone shipments declined 17 per cent on-year to 74 million units in the July-September period, according to market researcher Counterpoint Research.

Samsung had a 10 per cent share in the feature phone market in the third quarter, sharing third place with China’s Tecno Mobile, a subsidiary of Transsion Group.

Another Transsion brand, iTel, led the feature phone market with a 24 percent share, followed by Finnish phone maker HMD Global with a 14 percent share, data showed.