Smartphone sales accounted for fifty five % of worldwide mobile sales within the third quarter as customers in China and Latin America swapped their previous phones for the upper finish of the vary gadgets, analysis firm Gartner aforementioned on Thursday.
Worldwide smartphone sales rose nearly forty six % from last year to 250.2 million units, it said, whereas overall movable sales were up but six % at 455.6 million.
"Sales of feature phones (normal handsets) continuing to say no and therefore the decrease was additional pronounced in markets wherever the common terms (ASP) for feature phones was abundant nearer to the ASP of reasonable smartphones," aforementioned Gartner analyst Anshul Gupta.
He aforementioned he expected smartphone sales of slightly below one billion devices for 2013.
Samsung unbroken the highest spot within the smartphone phase, with a 32.1 % market share, selling 80.36 million smartphones, up from fifty five million within the same quarter last year, helped by its Note three massive show smartphone.
Apple sold-out twenty three.2 % additional smartphones at thirty.33 million, however its market share born to twelve.1 % from one4.3 percent.
Sales of Apple's new iPhone 5S and its affordable iPhone 5C model had a modest impact on sales as each phones went on sale in September, the last month of the quarter.
Lenovo took the third spot with a five.1 % market share within the smartphone phase, simply before LG physical science and Huawei, with market shares of four.8 % and four.7 % severally.
All the businesses area unit in particularly fierce competition within the Chinese market, wherever customers area unit still substitution their previous models with smartphones.
Of the smartphones sold-out, 81.9 % were running on Google's mobile platform golem, while 12.1 % used Apple's iOS and three.6 % were on Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Gartner aforementioned.
Blackberry saw its user base drop to one.8 % from five.2 % from the third quarter last year, it added.
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