No. 2 vendor Apple Inc.‘s share also decreased from 13.0 percent to 11.9 percent over the cited period.
Samsung sold 74.3 million smartphones in the April-June period, down 3.9 percent from a year earlier, while sales of Apple’s smartphones rose 12.4 percent on-year to 35.1 million units, the report said.
Chinese firms such as Huawei and Lenovo, on the other hand, gained ground.
Huawei placed third with a global share of 6.9 percent, up 2.6 percentage points from a year earlier. It posted year-over-year sales growth of 95.1 percent. Lenovo had a 5.4 percent share, up 0.7 percentage point, recording sales growth of 38.7 percent.
LG Electronics of South Korea came in fifth with a 4.9 percent share, compared with 5.0 percent a year earlier.
Sales of smartphones worldwide reached 295.3 million units in the second quarter, up 23.1 percent from the same period last year, the IDC report said.
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
