Samsung Mantains First Place in Global Smartphone Shipments in Q1, Apple will get 2nd rank, iPhone

In the first quarter of the current year, there has been a slight increase in the international shipments of the smartphone. However, during January to March, there has been a decline in sales of smartphones in markets like India and Latin America. There has been growth in the markets of America and China. Samsung of South Korea secured first place in this market in the first quarter.

According to the report by market research firm Canalys, the international shipments of smartphones rose 0.2 percent to about 29.69 million units in the first quarter of this year. This market has less growth in the third consecutive quarter. Samsung has a market share of about 20 percent with a shipment of about 6.05 crore units. Samsung has benefited from the launch of the Galaxy S25 series and the new Galaxy A series. Apple has won about 19 percent market share with a shipment of about 5.5 crore units in this market.

China’s Xiaomi ranks third with a shipment of around 4.18 million smartphones. Xiaomi’s market share is about 14 percent. After this, China’s Vivo and Oppo have got the fourth and fifth rank. The stake in the smartphone market of these two companies is about eight percent. The report said that smartphones of smartphones have increased in the first quarter in the first quarter. However, these shipments have decreased in India and Middle East markets.

In the first quarter, the US smartphone market increased by about 12 percent on the year-by-year basis. Apple has a large share in this market. Apple has deposited the inventory of iPhones to avoid the impact of tariffs on several countries including China. In China, a large number of manufacturing iPhones are exported to the US. Apple’s target is to manufacture most iPhones selling in the US in India. American President Donald Trump has imposed heavy tariffs on imports from China. Increasing manufacturing in India will make Apple easier to import iPhones in the US on low tariffs. For this, Apple will have to almost double the manufacturing of iPhone in India to more than eight crore units. In the last financial year, the company’s contract manufacturers assembled more than four crore iPhones.