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Xiaomi is now ranked third phone manufacturer

by on30 October 2014

Updated: 327 million phones sold in Q3 worldwide

In the Q3 2014 there were 327 million phones flogged, according to beancounters at research outfit IDC.

This is a 26.2 percent growth compared to Q3 2013 and 8.7 per cent sequential growth above the 301.3m units last quarter.

Samsung is still the market leader but the company dropped its market share from last year's 85 million in Q3 2013 to current 78.3m units in Q3 2014. Samsung is struggling with increased competition from three other Android players and to a lesser extent Apple.

Apple is still in second place and the company had the best Q3 in its history. It managed to sell 39.3 million iPhones including 10 million super bendy iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The company sold a lot of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Apple is in for a record fourth quarter simply due to popularity of its iPhone 6 line.

The third place is Xiaomi with 17.3 million units sold in Q3 2014. This is a great success as the Chinese phone manufacturer managed to beat both Lenovo and LG who are sitting at the fourth and fifth place. Xiaomi managed to grow 211.3 percent year over year and the well-priced Mi4 is selling rather well.

Lenovo is at the fourth place with 16.9 million while LG managed to score the fifth place losing by 0.1 million and selling 16.8 million phones.

Update: 

Lenovo has confirmed to Fudzilla that, together with Motorola, which just officially became part of Lenovo, it became the clear nuimber three. It shipped a total of 25.6 million devices and Xiaomi now drops to fourth place while LG stays at number five.

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This has been a good year for LG as the company realised that despite strong high end like LG G3 you need a strong middle of the road offering to bring in the punters.

The rest of 159.2 million is spread among everyone else and there too much competition on the phone market. It is hard to stay in top five and two brands that are focusing almost exclusively on China, Xiaomi and Lenovo, are among the leaders.

We are not sure if the Lenovo market share includes recently acquired Motorola but Motorola did a great job in mainstream market with insanely popular Moto G and reasonable popular Moto E and X.

 

Last modified on 30 October 2014
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