Android Continues to Lead the Way in Global Smartphone Sales
Android Continues to Lead the Way in Global Smartphone Sales
Google's Android is still storming ahead of Apple's mobile OS, shipping with 86.2% of smartphones sold worldwide, compared with 12.9% for iOS.

According to figures from Gartner, 344.3 million Android smartphones were sold worldwide in Q2 2016. This makes for a 4.3% increase in sales year on year.Samsung is still the undisputed market leader, selling no less than 76.7 million handsets in Q2 with a 22.3% market share. This puts the South Korean tech giant way ahead of Apple (44.3 million, 12.9%). Samsung is followed by three Chinese manufacturers: Huawei (30.6 million, 8.9%), Oppo (18.4 million, 5.4%) and Xiaomi (15.5 million, 4.5%). Note that Apple is the only one of the top five phone makers to see a fall in sales, dropping 3.7 million and 1.7 percentage points of market share in the space of a year.

As for operating systems, Android and iOS alone account for 99.1% of smartphone sales. Google's Android is still storming ahead of Apple's mobile OS, shipping with 86.2% of smartphones sold worldwide, compared with 12.9% for iOS.

Sales of handsets running Windows are now trivial after being in freefall for a year, slipping from a 2.5% market share to just 0.6%, or 1.9 million smartphones sol, in Q2. Blackberry fares even worse, claiming just 0.1% of smartphone sales worldwide, down from 0.3% in Q2 of 2015.

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